progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

I can't cook, at all. I would not know how to make coffee. I took cooking classes, so I know how to make chocolate soufflé, but ask me if I want to make soufflé. I let somebody else make the chocolate soufflé, and I eat it. I found that, when I took cooking classes and tried to cook, I didn't want to eat it. The joy was gone. I was always filthy with the stuff, and then had to clean it up. I don't like that.