I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?