Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

I've played everything but a harp.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

People start to lie more once they start to care less.

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

We become what we do.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

Defeat is only a defeat when we don't learn anything.

They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't.

Now, Hillary's [Clinton] more than that, she's an actual - she could be a crime boss.