I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.
I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.
Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?
People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.
I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.
