"I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy."

"I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better."

"I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour."

"I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair."

"I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules."

"If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun."

"I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that."

"I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian."

"The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter."

"The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge."

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"I really enjoy connecting with the audience."

"I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland."

"I like having fun."

"You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun."

"When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun."

"I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different."

"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]"

"I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live."