I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

There is nothing more important in life than love.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.