Me Quotes
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When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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For me, being able to say that my first-ever photo shoot was with one of the most well-known and iconic fashion photographers in the world is unbelievable.
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When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.
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Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
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I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
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So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
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If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.
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After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.
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Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
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I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
