I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

Donald Trump just announced that if Republicans don't treat him fairly, he will resurrect the Whig party and run as its hair apparent.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.