“The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.”

Marriage is a great institution.

I will love Michael Jackson forever.

I never face the day without perfume.

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head – wherever the music took me. My body followed.

I don’t love acting; I love chocolate.

When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die. My voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet. I’d love to be tall and willowy. I’m short.

When you’re older, you’ll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

It’s amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don’t want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn’t be more real. Some people don’t like to look at it in the face because it’s painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.

If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

Come & see how my heart came to be it is bare for you to see as proof these poems are the tangible forms of my heart.

I don’t believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

You proved to me that I can lose something I never even had in the first place.

That’s how it is with the English: if you score against them you’re a good player; if you don’t, you’re not.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.