I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'