As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!
No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone. . . you answer it.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.
I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?
I am not a woman staying at home.
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business. . . I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.