I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

A person hears only what they understand.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.