Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?

I feel like I haven't started yet. I'm looking forward to the ninth album, the thirtieth movie.

Being on camera, you have a responsibility to look good. If you don't, you'll hear about it.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.