High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning not as something to celebrate.

Every time I see something terrible it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized but almost every minority I know who's my age they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something or the new crop of actresses and think Aren't we kind of the same age?

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid but in this day and age I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.