"It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play."

"It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play."

"I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress."

"I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that."

"My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping."

"I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me."

"I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'"

"As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie."

"I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly."

"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."

"Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon."

"It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer."

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites."

"You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself."

"If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains."

"My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy."

"I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart."

"Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that ."

"Tis the part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but either to take no notice of what the world does, or run with it for company"

"Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly."

"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

"Fools are without number."

"I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their psychosis. I like discovering what makes them tick. I always find that with any character I play. I need to find out what makes them tick."