I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

I said to my husband, 'my boobs have gone, my stomach's gone, say something nice about my legs.' He said, 'Blue goes with everything.'

I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

I'll lie still for a lot of things - but sex isn't one of them.