“When I got them, no one else had them. Now everyone has them. They’re not so fabulous anymore.”
— Cher, on why she’s having her once-notorious tattoos removed
“I can’t stand to be away from them. Hate it, hate it!”
–actor Warren Beatty, referring to his wife and three children and why he’s shooting his next film near where they live, in Los Angeles
“It’s my mission to civilize the Ulster male.”
— Mo Mowlam, Britain’s Secretary for Northern Ireland, responding to charges by a male press officer whom she dismissed that she asked her bodyguards to buy tights, lipstick and tampons for her
“I could have taped that.”
— Nancy Sinatra, regretting that she was watching the final episode of “Seinfeld” when her father was being taken to the hospital for the last time
“When you hit a closed door and it doesn’t open easily, don’t get discouraged. . .just rear back and kick the door open.”
— Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, addressing graduates of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland
“When you pass 70, you forget your enemies. You think about the nice people instead.”
— Letitia Baldrige, 72, etiquette expert and the late Jacqueline Kennedy’s first press secretary
“One reason people like me is because I’m not glamorous, and I never want to be, because I don’t want to do something I’m going to fail at.”
— CNN’s legal analyst Greta Van Susteren, in W
