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.

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.

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

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

That's the Oscars for ya - you remember who was nominated, but you don't remember who won!

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.