I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick. |
I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth. |
I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable - and very, very frightening. |
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience |
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way. |
I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand!" (on Diana Ross) |
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something. |
I loved the first stanza, because to me this war is kind of senseless, and I don't know why we're there, |
I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. |
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.' |
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all. |
I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me. |
I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me. |
I'm very grateful to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who have been so supportive of me throughout my career. |
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. |