I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.
I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.
We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.
And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.
Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.