I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.