This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.

I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.

I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

I have been drumming my whole life.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

If you can't worship at the back, you can't worship at the front

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.

I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.