I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.