I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.

Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that' But you do want to stay intact-intact and on two feet.

Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.