Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.
What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us. But nowadays we can think that this magic has been killed and I am try to make it survive as long as possible.
I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.
I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.
I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.
Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.
Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.
I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.
Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.