Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.