I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Bring them on.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Acting is happy agony.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Before all else, be armed.

It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.