I was mortified that she disappeared before me, sitting at her writing desk, surrounded by classical music. A cerut in hand and a glass of whisky within reach.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts.
Sometimes you need to let go of everything – cleanse yourself. If you’re unhappy with something… whatever it is that’s dragging you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self, comes out.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
Now the gossip must stop. Now I’m tired of getting sucked into your columns. Then you must sue me if you dare.
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn’t do anything but just jiggle.
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
Nogle gange ønsker folk ikke at høre sandheden, fordi de ikke vil have deres illusioner ødelagt.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
I’ve never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
I don’t hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hate the sexy image, hate the pictures of me on stage, hate the big vulgar person. On stage, I act the whole time I’m there. As soon as I come out of those songs, I’m Tina again.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.