I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.

I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.