I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

I'm all over the place.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.

I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.

I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.

When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

Far Rockaway is like the New Orleans of New York.

Changing my name was meant to inspire and bring youth together all around the world.

The panda is a funny, lovable animal, which defends its territory well. It's strong but calm. It suits me perfectly.

I was top-10 once upon a time in this league, and I took a quick drop-off. Like, that's just not normal.

I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn't want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.

Sometimes it's good to be ready for the unpredictable. I'm glad that I can go through unpredictable situations. It's a good thing.

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture.

It's hard to understand how you're feeling, or you don't even know. That's why sometimes people seek counseling.

Of course there have been times when I've done crazy things. But I don't think I'm crazy. I just grew up in a crazy world.

I'm one of the best all-around small forwards in the world.

Whatever is in the best interest of the Lakers, that's what's important to me.

I think in the history of basketball, people get hired and people get fired, but the main thing is people enjoy their careers and enjoy that they have jobs, so you really have to stay positive about everything.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else.

If someone is not playing defense or not giving effort, that's my specialty. I don't hold back on my words.

I don't really talk about myself. I always talk about what could make the team better.

I'd heard of the name 'Big Brother' before. I didn't realize that it was on TV for 20 years. My manager told me, ''Big Brother' wants you.' I said, 'I don't feel like watching it, and I don't know what I'm getting into.'

I don't want to get stuck practicing basketball all day, so that's why I'm always moving: because I don't like to be stuck in one mind-frame.

Prodigy was definitely family... It definitely sucks not to have him here.

I feel like I had a great career. Had some big games... I feel like I had a great time.

I feel like I let people know I'm not a toy.

Big Brother makes a game where it's competitive, not just a handicap match. Mentally, physically, strategically, emotionally, it's an even match. When you compete 100%, it's a real competition.

I'm always excited about life in general.