I was really involved with other people’s opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don’t have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It’s not the way...

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it’s gonna be better for you. But I honestly don’t know that.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you’re stupid.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what’s happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that...

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when...

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone’s uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

Though I’m not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

How can you beat someone that’s already lost everything?

I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we’d go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot,...

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director’s chair.

I’m more aware of time. The element of time.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

I’m not so widely known that I’m going to be pigeonholed.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself… but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter’s unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

Nobody’s got it made. Nobody, no matter what they look like.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn’t feel dressed without them.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

Well, I’m a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

I have no affectation when I speak.

I don’t like wearing ’70s clothes at all.

The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn’t know any of the stars from the other studios.

A l lot of films I’ve done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don’t know themselves well.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

You know, I grew up with brothers so I’m used to being the only girl.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it’s a little eerie. I’d love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don’t know if I can do...

I was always the bad guy no matter what. I mean, even when Elvis was married, you know, it was – it was a lot of fanfare about that, also.

I’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like,...

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn’t promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and...

I am young. I better show off what I have now.

I may be an optimist.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have...

I’m always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I’m the most skeptical. You know, I’m very proud of what we’ve done, and I don’t want to screw up our series.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

I was this weird little bookish giant.

It’s important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they’re pretty.

A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.