“The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.”

I’m fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.

It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.

I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

A lot of brands, you can’t touch them. When you’re dealing with Snoop Dogg, he brings you closer to the brand and it feels like it’s a part of you.

Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can’t prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I’m feeling that day.