Cyndi Lauper

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.