“On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.”

“I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.”

“I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.”

“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”

“I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.”

“I'm famous. That's my job.”

“You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.”

“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”

“Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.”