It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual.

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So I am the fastest cook in the world.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.