Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.

That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I've played everything but a harp.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

I always have the best of everything.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.

Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

I've never gone to comedy clubs.

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.

One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

No woman has an abortion for fun.

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject.

She'd stolen my car. She'd stolen my dog. She'd stolen all my money. But if she had only asked, I would have given her it all, because when I first met her, she'd stolen my heart.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prosperity, provided (and that is the important point) they are so naturally, by the effectiveness of industry, and not in consequence of an inflated currency or any artificial regulation.

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.