I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.