"I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself."

"If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that."

"I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was."

"Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"The silent observer understands that a mind at peace can weather any storm."

"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."