You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

It's okay to look back, just don't stare.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.

I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.