Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.

We are all special in God's eyes because He has designed us to carry His treasures.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.