I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

I'm enough of a southeast Texas boy - there's enough white trash in my blood that when somebody gives me money to make a record, I feel like I have to please them instead of myself.

Wu-Tang Clan's first album, '36 Chambers,' there wasn't a lot of money given to make that album.