Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

My first vocation was dance.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

The problem is solvable puzzle.

Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, "Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn't, guide me to what I need."

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

...thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I'd like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall be, and it's an image that I keep with me at all times.

The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"