Cancer taught my family that my mom is much stronger than we ever thought. Faced with a devastating diagnosis, she just kept going and living - never complaining.
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
I never really saw my mom as Diana Ross. My mom was my mom.
I love being on camera. And I love knowing what's going on in the world. Diane Sawyer is my favorite. She never seems to lower herself to get the job done. She just always carries herself well. I really admire her.
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.
One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
If you take the duality of things - like sunny-sounding music with weird lyrics on it - it makes this dichotomy. I've never had that because when I make music, I make major chords, happy-sounding stuff, and my lyrics are positive.
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
