I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'.

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws..

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me..

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work..

Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads hel….

I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, ….

I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the qu….

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was….

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen..

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again..