It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.
A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.
I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.
There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.
