I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.
What I really want is a commercial hit. If youre in a hit, youre suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there.
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.
Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.