The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

Smoking ages you quicker than almost anything else.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

I saw several actresses play the part. I did not in fact, as far as I know, do anything that any of the other actresses did. I don't think actresses do that. I think that what we do is we see a role as a role, we don't see it as a person. We look at the role and think, 'What can I, as an actor, bring to that part?