I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

I didn’t know what to do with myself. I wasn’t excited by the teaching of the school. If they’d been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful...

I’ve always had a lot of energy. I was up and about and raging around all the time. And I did get tuberculosis out of it, finally.

I didn’t choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don’t think you are gay. It’s enough to drive you crazy.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne’er...

I thought, I’m out in my life, that doesn’t involve my public life.

I thought Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I’ve ever read in my life.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I’d deal with the other stuff later.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of...

Most of the people I know in show business don’t need anybody pushing them at all. They’re extremely aggressive.

If there was a distraction I’d get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don’t think they expect that girls are going to behave in...

I don’t even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I’m still deferred.

I am woman, hear me roar.

You’re not going to find a man whose socks don’t get dirty or who doesn’t snore.

There was that thing of girls. Girls don’t have to do anything. Little blondie pretty girls don’t really have to know anything much.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don’t see enough of that.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

I’d always had a big thing for the ’60s.

People might find me attractive, but it’s also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

I feel that I’m at my best as a person and that I’m coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way...

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I’m in concert, I get people now who bring their...

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay – which was so annoying!

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone’s critiquing.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don’t exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

There were huge big bands like Count Basie, and I used to go from the theatre to Birdland, and they all knew me. I loved the big band sound.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even...

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

My boyfriend’s idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, ‘Go!’ Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to...

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they’re not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these...

If you’ve got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it’s beautiful. I’m such a romantic, and I always have been.

I couldn’t do anything. I’d work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn’t hack it. I couldn’t even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

When I was in New York I fell madly in love with an Italian and got married. I couldn’t get out of it, and that’s when I got a bit ill.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.