The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

We all have levels of performance.

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

The theater is magical and addictive.

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

I'm sure you would have stopped it if you could have." "In a heartbeat.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.