“I’m mostly a jazz fan and I’ve never really been into rock ‘n’ roll music.”

Acting is really only part of my life. I’m addicted to it.

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.

You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can’t do that if you’re a musician.

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

Whether you’re on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can’t settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You’re on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we’re still paying for it.

Film has always been hard for me, I’m basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

That the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM

I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists.