“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.”

“Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.”

“Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.”

“I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.”

“I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.”

“I can't do coffee, but I can do Dr. Pepper.”

“I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.”

“I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.”

“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 have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'”

“I kill myself for my body.”

“I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.”

“I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?”

“I only answer to two people, myself and God.”

“I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.”

“I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.”

“I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.”

“I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.”

“I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.”

“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 would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.”

“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?”

“I'm from a Gypsy background!”

“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 just the worst little Buddhist in town.”

“I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.”

“I'm not old-fashioned.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.”

“I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'”

“Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.”

“Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.”

“My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.”

“My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me.”

“Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.”

“People are negative no matter what you do.”

“Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.”

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”

“To me marriage is for five or ten years.”

“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.”

“You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.”