I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.