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A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I have got a few misters interested but nobody special these days.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'