My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on.

She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

You don’t marry for love. What does love got to do with marriage? I spit on love and marriage. You marry for money.

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

If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there isn't something wonderful playing. If I'm home in New York at night, I'm either at a Broadway or an Off Broadway show. We're in the theater capital of the world, and if you don't get it, you're an idiot.

I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.

There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune.