[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.
Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.
If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.
Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.
My point of view and philosophy continues to change and grow. As the years go by you go through this evolution.
The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.
I wanted to be famous. I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard and my dream came true.
If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Barry Goldwater once said, "I'd rather be right than president. " I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.