“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Loved people are loving people.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I don’t believe in marriage. It’s bloody impractical. ‘To love, honor, and obey.’ If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to sign a contract.

He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

You can’t change the music of your soul.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

The woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.

Enemies are so stimulating.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

She’s beautiful, yes, but dangerous remember – there is a difference between admiring the fire and putting your hand in the flame.

Sunflowers never beg to be adored.

Strength so powerful, it makes hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones tremble, your courage so admirable, monarchs around the world could use you as an example.