“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.

You are the only person you can actually change.

All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’

It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.

Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.

If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

It’s how you live that really counts.

Every desire is a self-portrait of the person who pursues it.

Finding love and friendship in one person is a real pleasure.

Having one true person by your side is worth anything you lost.

You’ll keep believing in toxic love and relationships until that one person comes and challenge all your beliefs.

Her playlist reveals what a wonderful person she is.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I’m a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don’t notice.

When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.