Goldie Hawn

The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it's a very powerful relationship if it's healthy. ”

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble. ”

I love making people laugh and by the way I still do that with the charitable efforts on my part because I believe that people need to laugh. ”

It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right? ”

Getting older is a fact of life. ”

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing? ”

I believe that life is about doing. ”

At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy. ”

I was always a performer, always on stage, but I also always believed I was going to go home, open a dance school, get married, and have what you would call a 'normal' life. ”

I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight. ”