If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.
It's not personal, it's strictly business
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
Vanity is my favourite sin.
It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp. . . Then I'd find another one.
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
[Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.