I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.