Fats Waller

If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.

If you’ve got to take it. Take it easy. Never hurry to a date. Eat your supper; let ’em wait.

Whenever I’m with you alone. You weave a magic spell and though it be a danger zone. I only know that you’re swell.

No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I’m happy on the shelf.

A little bit independent in your walk. A little bit independent in your talk. There’s nothing like you in Paris or New York. You’re awfully easy on the eyes.

This heart of mine could never see what everybody knew but me

I think women are very powerful and I think we’re more powerful together than separate.

I don’t feel crazy any more! It was always like – it’s going to be one of two things, either i’m crazy or everybody else is.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

I’d love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

[to troops in Iraq] I’m looking at a group of heavily armed people here. I’m telling myself ‘if you’re not funny, it’s a problem’

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

[on Edward Cullen in ‘Twilight’] He’s a poet, and very deep and profound. He’s just extraordinarily troubled.

[after naked photos leaked] I want to apologise to my fans, whose support and trust means the world to me. “I am embarrassed over this situation and regret having ever taken these photos. I am thankful for the support of my family and friends.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they’re your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

For my first show at ‘SNL’, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

[On her most dreadful crush] I used to drive, pretty pathetically, I’d just drive by their house all the time and they didn’t know who I was. I’d just drive by the house all the time. I once knocked on the window and I thought, “What am I doing? What am I going to say if they come to the door and don’t know who I am?”

No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I’m happy on the shelf.

Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.