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Quotes
I don't like my voice that much. I think I'm
a much better actress than singer. Singing is like going to a party at
someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.
When you go to someone else's house for a party, it's not your
responsibility at all, but when you have the party at your own house,
there's a lot of responsibility. Everyone has to have a good time. So
for me, acting is deeper.
In this business you have to be tough, and
if someone pushes me really far I can certainly be impossible. I've
always said, 'if you're nice they walk over you and if you stand up for
yourself they call you a bitch.'
I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried
to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've
managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.
I'm like a bumper car. When I did an
infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job.
People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been
on my way out since I started, but I'm strong willed. My mother is so
much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my
mother.
I haven't a clue why I've lasted so long.
There's no reason. There are many people more talented than me. I think
it's luck.
I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy
life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr.
Salk did that I was really pissed off. - People Magazine 7/1/85.
A
girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that
still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong
ones.
Anyone
who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
Don't
take your toys inside just because it's raining.
Going
hungry never bothered me - it was having no clothes.
Husbands
are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
I
can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage
me to grow.
I
don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's
stupid. He's lazy.
I
don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can
touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have
a man around.
I
only answer to two people, myself and God.
I
won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many
scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
I'm
insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the
mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd
like to look like.
I'm
learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney',
'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
I'm
not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden
that being a "serious actress" entails.
I'm
scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds
but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor
inside. It's my pet paranoia.
I'm
still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.
I've
always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think
of me.
If
you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
If
you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you
are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you
to vote Republican?
In
this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're
obsolete.
It's
not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's
not the end-all, be-all of my life.
Men
aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Men
should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
The
trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing-and
then marry him.
Until
you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being
great.
Women
are the real architects of society.
Women
have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning
not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go
around the corner.
Words
are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
Yes,
it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total
mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we
want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
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