My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

I've played everything but a harp.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

I don't believe in dieting, but I do believe in the lifestyle that you want to live.

My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story.