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.

There’s a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

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.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It’s so stimulating. I...

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It’s a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.

No, I’m not! I’m not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That’s not true! I’m not a tomboy!

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

I always admired good writing and read everything that came out. When I was married to John Monk Saunders, he read everything, too.

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you’re never really afraid for her because you know she’s not going to die.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

But also, it’s a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

That’s what makes a character interesting from an actor’s perspective – the more screwed up, the better.

We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.