I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

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 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.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride.

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.