“Actors cannot work against each other. It’s totally impossible.”

Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

If you’re not living on the edge then you’re taking up a little too much space.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

Life is meant to be lived to the fullest, no matter your age.

The highest power is the human mind. That’s where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

You have the right to vote. You have the right to share your voice. you have the opportunity to shape the future of your community.

Is listening important? I can’t think of a single walk of life where it wouldn’t be.

Once you’ve made a decision, let providence be your guide.

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Passing on blessings to someone else is a privilege and honor.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’.

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Let’s honor all of these heroes by being of service to others, as they did.

Together we are strong.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

Many casting directors won’t hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick’s headshot under the table so she doesn’t get the part.

All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It’s a great platform.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It’s – but it all goes back to ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Golden Girls,’ all those – actors love to take the credit. We couldn’t do it without the writers.