A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.