“Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.”

If they [at the audition] don’t like the way you sound they won’t buy you anyway, ripped dress or no ripped dress, ass hanging out or no ass hanging out.

I’ve always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.

I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.

It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!

When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. T

That’s the Oscars for ya – you remember who was nominated, but you don’t remember who won!

Thank God for the gays. I don’t know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I’m even sanguine about that.

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.

I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’

I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn’t want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought,

You can feel compassion for others without feeling victimized yourself.

People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.

It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

If something’s just, I’ll let myself be hacked to bits for it.