I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

There's no retirement for an artist, its your way of living so theres no end to it.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

I was raised on The Beatles. I loved Led Zeppelin growing up. Judy Garland. Doris Day. That's where things began. I took a lot from the '60s and maybe from the '40s or '50s as well.

Cinema is always a political art, at the end.

Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.