Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

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".

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.