If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.