I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

I would love to do an all Laura Nyro show.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

Sleeping with a guy isn't the same thing as opening your heart to him.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.