'RCA wanted a sweetheart kind of girl. Trust me, it's fights, always fights, just to be myself.'

'Even though it`s hard working and what not, it`s fun. Ever since I was a little girl that`s what I wanted to do, so how can I complain in the end about the lo…

'You are surrounded by people, each one more false than the other, always ready to step on you. Either you quickly learn to survive or you fail, you lose every…

'I'm so in the world of Nina Simone, Etta James, Billie Holiday and Eartha Kitt, one of the original bad girls.'

'It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would…

I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, 'Aren't you tired of always playi…

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