It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

Whatever will be, will be.

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

I know there’s something troubling you. I’m not going to ask what it is, if you don’t want to tell me. But remember that I’m your mother. Nothing you say could ever shock me or make me love you less.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.