I don't want kids to be distracted by pipe dreams.

I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too.

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

Do ants get headaches?

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.