“I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.”

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.

He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.

You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.

I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York,

As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

I love to decorate a room – from the furniture to the objects to the books.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.

You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!