Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.

I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses.

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.