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“To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.”
“What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.”
“Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.”
“The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.”
“It's nice for a woman to go out and have her own money and her own ability to do what she wants.”
“I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?”
“I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person.”
“I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems.”
“What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?”
“It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.”
“I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.”
“I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.”
“I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese.”
“I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight.”
“I do a lot of juicing. I don't put a lot of food in my stomach, and I don't mix my foods too much. So if I want to have, like, protein, I'll just eat a bowl of lentils; I won't mix it with a bunch of stuff.”
“When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with.”
“I guess I came to know this about myself: for better or worse, I don't give up.”
“Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.”
“At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy.”
“I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.”