“Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.”

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.

I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.

I never sing in the shower either.

Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

When I sing, people shut up.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

I’ll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.

Madison Square Garden has held some of the best fights of all time. Many legendary fighters have fought there. Being able to fight there is an honor.

An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.