When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, “What have I done? How did I do it? Where’d I mess up?
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I’ve always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it for one minute. He hasn’t been to one of my shows.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.
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It’s a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
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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.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
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