She Quotes

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!'