Quotes

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.

I never in a million years thought that my life would unfold the way it has.

Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they're for a very specific reason, something for me to learn.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.

I feel very French and I need my life here; I need all my friends and family.

To have a personal life is the minimum freedom you have to give to a human being.

I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

People think that money and fame fixes and changes so much. Money does give you assistance and resources in this life. But you think that life will become easier, and that's not necessarily true.

I want to live my life on full. I want to die empty, whatever that means - giving myself to my three kids now, giving myself to love or a relationship, giving myself to my career, devoting myself to being a healthy person. I have to give my full self to something, because that's what makes me feel alive.

My music is a gift from God that saved my life.

Having life taken away from you for a little while forces you to be more open-minded and to go live.

I feel like God gave me my life for that reason to share with other people that may be like me or not like me.

There are Black women who die while trying to give life to newborns because Black people are always overlooked, under-cared-for, underprivileged. It's been what it has been since the beginning of time. I know from my own experience dealing with the health-care system, having to spend so much money to go to the doctor and still be overlooked.

Whoever wants to be caught up in my life, first of all, you should be living yours because I'm damn sure not worried about your life.

I'll tell you what bothers me. This music business is so crazy. They think everything is a game, or everything is a fad or trend to win. I see people saying, 'My next album is going to be my honest album, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, my deepest secrets, the soundtrack to my life.'

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.