In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

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

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

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

I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family.

I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.