Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

If God hadn't meant us to hunt men, he wouldn't have given us Wonder Bras.

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.

My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.