Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!