At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.
I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.
Hmm. . . Death by mini bar, how glamorous.
My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.
The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.
I've never been any good with authority.
I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business. " "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.
I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.