"Oh, I'm working with a singer who acts. I felt like I was working with a woman who truly knew how to tell a story, whether she was speaking or singing or just standing there feeling something."

"More praise for the movie's headliner isn't hard to come by. Her voice is a weapon."

"That's exactly how Aretha would eat! That's exactly how she was.'" Hudson remembers. I loved having people around that knew her, to give notes or give the okay or chime in."

"I am at the weight I want to be, People are under the impression that I’m still losing but I’m not."

"When you prerecord you're married to that emotion, that delivery. I like the rawness, the honesty of being in the moment."

"We will continue to support Jennifer in maintaining her healthy lifestyle and wish her the very best in her personal and professional life."

"I think the most important impetus in life, is that it not be boring. The fear of boredom drove me more than any yearning for something I wanted to achieve."

"It was like, one day you were an actress who could do anything, and the very next day, you could not work in film or television again. And that was the temper of the times."

"The 1950s and early '60s were emotionally rough for me. In 1950, when I was 23, I was named a Communist by Red Channels, an anti-Communist pamphlet, and was blacklisted by Hollywood from 1952 until the early 1960s."

"It's all about self-motivation because at the end of the day, you can have all the trainers and all the money in the world, but if you don't have that mindset, it's not possible."

"It's like a brand new me, Sometimes I don't even recognize myself."

"Chicago is home. Obviously, family, and it's all I know. I don't care where I go in the world, there is no place like home. Every time I come home, I get to come home to Chicago."

"I'm a mother and I have a life that's in my care and someone that looks up to me. That helps me see myself in a whole other light in a different way. It's a whole new world."

"I went from being an aunt, having a mom, and being a child to not having a mom, becoming a mom, and raising my own child."

"Well, I don’t really have time to do much [exercise], I just watch what I eat. I’m very careful and cautious of what I’m eating and I just try to place those meals throughout the day."

"Stuff like this happens in your own home! I defy all the odds being African-American, living in a wealthy neighborhood and being a working mom. It’s too many foreign things in one person! It’s so ignorant. Race is just one of them. I face them all."

"I always like to say what men can't conquer, they like to destroy, I've learned, and that's something else that Mama Franklin taught me."

"Though I had hoped to return to playing Hetty at the start of the season, I had to take some additional time to recover. I look forward to returning later this season."

"Oh, you can get me off by force, I reckon, It won’t take much force. But it will take some."

"I don't know. Just walk. Just walk. My daughter Dinah just found out that a book she’s written, a novel, is being published. It’s very exiting. Maybe we’ll get to go to some great New York bookstore once everything’s back and see it up their on the shelves. That would be fun to walk to."

"In one scene I had to beat up my hooker girlfriend - Jo wanted to be pumped up and asked me to slap her before we did the scene."

"For an actor, you sometimes have to say yes to these type of jobs. Especially when you get older, and are a woman."

"I knew my career as an actor would change. I wouldn’t get these parts again. I had reached the age where Hollywood begins to humiliate beautiful women. I wasn’t going to do it. Walking up there, I could almost feel myself accepting that change."

"I’m in my 90s and it’s lovely to have any of my films appreciated."

"Jo, at that point, decided I was a worthy opponent, and we became friends. We ran for over a year, and we became friends socially. She was a good friend for that period of time."

"I don’t use a typewriter or a computer, so everything was written by pen and ink by my little desk. It took me four years to complete it, and as you can see, it wasn’t an easy book to write."

"I had 12 years to make up for. I'm a very practical person. I had to support myself, I had to support my daughter, and I had to work. And if the way that I could work was to have the years taken off my age at that time, I was desperate to do it. I had to be able to go from one job to another and be pretty. And I achieved that for a good long time. I made up those 12 years."

"Learn how to be a waiter."

"We’re doing everything we can to keep everyone safe, and Linda, you know, is a little extra-special in terms of how we have to look out for her."

"I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I’m a tiny woman, but I have enormous authority in myself."

"I was a bird imitating the birds. And so it was their kind of imaginary world that I was raised in, and it was part delicious and part confusing."

"The work she did in the film was very sensitive. There was something in her character that struck a chord with her. I found her fascinating."

"She was difficult. nobody wanted to direct her because she was hard to manage, She was a very bright woman and incredibly talented,and, sometimes, she was so talented it became almost a hindrance to her."

"I do like it. I get a kick out of it!"

"They tease me about the Oscar, about having won the Oscar. But sweetly!"

"I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man."

"Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up."

"...having to experience so much so soon, and then to have to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, that's a lot. I can understand that."

"Jo stagnated, and, since she knew it, was bitter, And as she became bitter, she became more difficult."

"I’m not a consciously political person, I suppose, except in a psychological sense, in an emotional sense. I understand very little of politics in terms of governments and foreign policy and so my response to them, and to the play, was intuitive and not intellectual."

"Power is one thing if you have a very rigid sense of morality backing it up. It’s very hard to put the source of one’s power into that role, it’s like choosing to put the positive piece of yourself into something you feel is not right."

"When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts."

"I was so lucky my parents were encouraging on every level."

"It was bigger than life. In some sense, I longed to be bigger than life, because I wasn’t."

"One thing I can say about this glorious business that we’ve been privileged to be a part of. Some people’s past rises to haunt them. Our past has risen to bless us, and to bring us to places like this, to dear, warm people such as you. As far as I’m concerned, this business has been a passport to the world, for all of us. No matter where we go, there is some soul lurking who will come up and say, “Aren’t you …? And didn’t you used to be …? And you say yes, and you’ve found a friend. And this can happen anywhere, thanks to the late, late show on television! And to wonderful people with very long memories. We bless you all!"

"Our obituary will say we were in Gone With the Wind and we'll be proud of it."

"My life has reached the point where I'm now 'camp'."

"Cast throughout her career in supporting roles, Stapleton was content not playing a lead character, I don't think she ever had unrealistic aspirations about her career."

"There are many roads to good acting, I've been asked repeatedly what the key to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake."