I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

We all have our own closets to come out of

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

Women don't realize how powerful they are

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.