I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.