This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.
When you’re older, you’ll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.
Marriage is a great institution.
The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.
Without homosexuals there’d be no Hollywood.
I never tried to act until A Place in the Sun.
On Mother’s Day: It’s just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.
I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
Oh, I love red. I’m very loyal to my colors. I love violet.
Why shouldn’t gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn’t always work!
On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.
All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.
I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?
I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.
It’s not the having, it’s the getting.
Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.
If someone’s dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I’m certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
I feel like 45. I don’t look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep.
People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
I don’t think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I’m not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.