Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn’t expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional...

People say, ‘You look like the girl who used to be on that show ‘Angel’ – they don’t actually think I’m her.

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from...

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

My mom passed down to me her old Levi’s denim jacket. When I left it on a plane, I was devastated. I’ve never been able to find anything with quite the same cool, faded look.

Having a child doesn’t make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don’t think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.

I don’t have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I...

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two...

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of...

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

I really miss Diana. I loved her so much.

She’s generous to a fault – if it’s her own.

I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn’t want to sign, that’s his or her choice. If someone isn’t willing to give an organ, however, why should that...

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen! Why...

If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That’s how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was...

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me...

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we’ve seen too many of her books on screen.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

I HAVE NO INTEREST FOR HER.OKEY.THEN WHY THINKING ABOUT HER?

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to – at least once...

Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She’s really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues...

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I’d never do that. Dave does the cooking.

There’s kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don’t pet her for 10 minutes she’ll bother you for six hours.

I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my...

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

When I’m dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.

I see my sister, and she’s on her second baby, and I’m like, ‘That’s success.’ Having a family – I can’t wait for that.

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming...

My mom wouldn’t know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway’s postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of...

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

What I remember most is the searing sensation of looking into her eyes for the first time,eyes that would hunt me for the rest of my life

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it’s when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much...

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent.

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah,...

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail....

One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back,...

A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.

I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele’s not having gimmicks her gimmick? It’s hard to say, isn’t it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or...