The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

Big girls need big diamonds.

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.