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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!
You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.
It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.