Raquel Welch

Americans have always had sex symbols. It’a time-honored tradition and I’m flattered to have been one. But it’s hard to have a long, fruitful career once you’ve been stereotyped that way. That’s why I’m proud to say I’ve endured.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

There aren’t any hard women, only soft men.

You can’t fake listening. It shows.

This Velvet Mafia thing is just another homophobic, nasty kind of thing that jealous queens make up.

To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

If people don’t like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that’s too bad. I don’t want to change to be something that I’m not for other people to like me.

Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn’t mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn’t know about why it happened.

I think we’re a band with a lot of history now so it’s nice to come up with something that doesn’t have any history at all.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

I’ve seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn’t matter how we met. We met. I don’t want to say that we’re a couple. I can definitely say that he’s somebody in my life, and I’m definitely interested but I’m not serious with anybody.

I sing and dance as well, and I would like to do the whole Hilary Duff thing.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky! Vanessa: (on her mom) She gave up so much for me. She moved many times so I could follow my career. Vanessa: I’ve always had problems with guys!

Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying “like” all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.

[On his early day in the music business] I stepped on a lot of toes… at that time.

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.

[on getting the part of Cedric] I knew the casting director from another movie which I did, and they wanted to see me for this part, but I was doing another movie over the casting period, so I ended up seeing Mike Newell and Mary Selway and Fiona Weir – who were casting at the time – before anyone else was seen for casting. And then, I went to do this other movie, and then the day I came back… I got a call back and basically, that’s what happened.