Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging

It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

Psychologically, I’m very confused… But personally, I don’t feel bad at all.

Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it.

You'll never learn to act in Hollywood. Not in a thousand years.

I can't do nothing. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon what I going to get ain't no more than mine.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don't begin soon. It works sometimes.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.