Divine

“I collect a lot of beautiful tins from around the world, and I'll put things in them and give them as presents.”

“I'm a nice guy, I really am.”

“I have no bad habits, except overeating.”

“I don't live in drag... I don't sit around in negligees and I don't wear little Adolfo suits to lunch. Of course, if I had a couple of Bob Mackie outfits, things might be different.”

“I don't see what's shocking about a man in a dress.”

“I always loved that tragic look, the bigger-than-life women. They always have those big glasses and scarfs on, and doctors and nurses always around them. You felt sorry for them, but they had their lips together, no matter what was happening to them. They always looked like movie stars.”

“I'm very surprised at my success as a singing star because I can't sing a lick.”

“I was always fat and not very athletic. Finally in my junior year I went on a diet. I got down from 220 to 140. It was very funny, all of a sudden I was much more popular. I could get dates with pretty girls who had turned me down before. I was the same person! It was a learning thing for me, part of growing up. I realized it was all so artificial.”

“I always felt like a movie star.”

“Alfred Hitchcock was right when he said that actors are basically like cattle. Directors just look at us and yell 'Move!'”

“I always wanted to be in show business or whatever you want to call this crazy world, to be an actor or a movie star or whatever.”

“As far as a man, Cary Grant is always suave and debonair and dashing. Sydney Greenstreet for a portly person, or Robert Morley. I think he always looked spiffy.”

“I never wanted to emulate anyone. Oh, I loved Elizabeth Taylor, Mae West, Lucille Ball. But I never tried to copy. I always wanted to be an original.”

“I love to make Christmas cookies, chocolate chips, peanut butter cookies, pecan pies, coconut macaroons, fruitcakes.”

“I love to eat, it's my main thing, my biggest weakness.”

“I never planned to do female roles. It just happened. I was typecast.”

“I've always had very macho taste in movies.”

“I can stand on stage and do nothing, and people will write, 'Divine was outrageous.'”