I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
Art transcends politics this weekend.
I still like my antique clothes.
You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.
I was a personality before I became a person.
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.
I never sing in the shower either.
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
