I’ve been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I’ve been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and...

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn’t sure of it.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It’s really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they’re actually really happy, good- natured people.

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn’t fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify...

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn’t heard it.

My mother and father came from that idealistic age, when they were brought up to believe that they should be working for the good of mankind.

I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don’t have to all the time; I can wear a tank and...

I don’t think any one person is the cause of all of someone else’s problems.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I’ve had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn’t going to talk about it.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn’t have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn’t really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully,...

Young actors are serious about their work and don’t take any time out from it. I’m very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I’ve done where I had a really good...

When I was about 16, I was crazy about this girl. I had a certain amount of money in the bank where I could put a downpayment on a rental, and I went to her...

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn’t right for me.

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

Everybody keeps talking about whether they had a happy childhood or not. I can’t remember being unhappy. I think I probably was.

Every director is completely different.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn’t nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it’s not the totality of me.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.

I like music to soothe me.

I believe academics think that if the child doesn’t go to university, they aren’t really a serious person and not worth paying the money for.

I find that I get very lost in certain things and that it is hard to let go. Often, certain characteristics stay with you from characters.

If you’ve looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That’s just the way it is.

In the ’50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

I was always a bit flighty, I suppose.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there’s a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

When I watched Ellen come out in ’97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done...

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven’t felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life.

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.

I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn’t work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don’t speak English at all. It must be hell.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn’t come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better...