I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!

Haters are a drop in the ocean. Theres that much more love

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.