I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.