After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.
I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?
Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell "my" sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason. . . not even as a member of the studio audience.
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. . . During this period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities - not the salt in our bread but the bread itself.