My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.