I wouldn’t trade anything no matter how good or bad or difficult. I’m the luckiest girl in the world as far as I’m concerned.
My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he’d have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.
There’s no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I’ll ever do.
With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It’s so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.
As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.
One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let’s not forget the hygiene.
I still eat sushi, though I’m trying my best to have my last sushi roll.
My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.
In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they’ll often remind you that really, they always liked you.
I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it’s no longer a tradition in New York.
Children need to grow up and make their own decisions – how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.
There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can’t do them all.
I cannot really be responsible for other people’s thought processes.
Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.
The media paint ugly pictures about you.
I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it’s great. I don’t hold anything against marriage.
As far as I’m concerned, I don’t eat meat.
I’ve been so blessed because I’ve had such longevity. I’m not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you’re grape juice. I’ve been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
Clarity keeps you from boredom.
I know that my in-box will be so full the day that I leave the planet. So you try to stay interested in life and bring some kind of comfort and pleasure to others on this planet as you’re going through this journey.