“I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.”

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

Sometimes I feel like an old hooker.

Singing is like going to a party at someone else’s house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

Some years I’m the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone’s so over me, and I’m just so past my sell date.

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them – even if it’s not logical.

I’m still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

It’s my body and if I want to do it like Michael Jackson, I will. My nose bothered me for a long time. Now it’s smaller and I’m happy. If I wanna put my tits on my back, they’re mine!

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She’d buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

If you’re black in this country, if you’re a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

If you’re waiting for someone to believe in you, you’ll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

I’ve always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they’re doing is right.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

I’ve done only things I’ve liked, and I’m happy that others have liked them, too. I hope it keeps going that way. But l would never want to do films which please just one set of audience; they should connect with everyone.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.

In each passing day, I hope I love you less but somehow this love stays and my heart is yours nonetheless.

This spring along with flowers, I hope you bloom as my love has, one season too soon.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.