Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!
Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong. '
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else. . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first.
I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
When we got down there were some agent provocateurs, if you've never heard of them, these are people sent in intentionally into a group to create chaos and dissension. . . There were two we identified down there that were trying to foment violence on either side, trying to really create a confrontation. Any time this stuff happens there's going to be agent provocateurs come in.
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.
Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.