Dance
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- I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.
- In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier - but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes’…I was an idiot...It's a decade of tears.
- Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman’s life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.
- When you are giving a certain portion of your life to people and you’re selling it sexually, you’re selling it sensually, and you’re selling it romantically - for you to then take that portion that you give only to fans away and to give it to one person, it kind of… if they don’t approve, it might be crickets for me.
- I think it’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
- It's about finding what's next. I'm hesitant to let people know what producers I'm f---ing with, what I'm rapping about. I'd rather drop that winning hand out of nowhere.
- I've been doing this professionally since I was 10. If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be like 250 years old.
- When people are like, 'Life is good,' I go, 'No. Life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.
- And the thing is, for me to say I wasn't a genius, I would just be lying to you and to myself.
- I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger than a rapper.
- They always seem to think that I’m scary, and I understand that totally. Old people are scary. And I have to face it, I am old and I am scary. And I’m very, very sorry about it, but I don’t know what you do.
- The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.