The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.

They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me... I am woman and I am strong.

If you expect love, don't forget to love someone.

It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

I always read the papers, the political bits.

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

I'm a really big animal lover.

I can have a thousand people say the nicest things, but I'll always notice the one person who doesn't get me.