Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make all the difference in our lives.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile.

Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

My taste includes both snails and oysters.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.