“For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.”

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

I’m not going to make a judgment on plastic surgery because I don’t have to yet. I mean, I’d like to think I’ll feel great about myself and age gracefully, but then I think, Well, what if I do want a little bit of something? I’m open to being open.

When I was in my 20s I wasn’t sure of myself. Now I can really stretch. I don’t have to stay in the box. At this point I can say to myself, So what if I fall, so what? I’m going to get back up.

You have to stand up and say, ‘There’s nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you’re the one with the problem!’

They’re making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I’m laughing at that.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.

I’m a singer. I’m a dancer. I’m a performer. I’m an actress. That’s what I’m supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Don’t push your weaknesses, play with your strengths.

I’m feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover.

You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

You have got to love yourself first. You have got to be ok on your own before you can be ok with somebody else. You have got to value yourself and know that you are worth everything.

I swear to God, I don’t remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.