You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.

My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.

Value is the best thing in the world.

The most assured way of gaining maximum respect, is to permanently become a person of great honor.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat.

My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.