The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.

Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.

We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.