I'd like everyone to imagine a world where you get a job as Tom, and then the next day you're Tina. Imagine you're in the world where you love what you do, but people say that you can't be who you are.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.