“There are lots of things that I’d like to be, and nice just doesn’t seem good enough.”

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.

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.

I can see the good in people and still advocate for my boundaries.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

I was never an actress — none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.