Yes, it did look like 'where did she go?' I was hiding.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

My dream would be to be like Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads. Her style and everything about her, she's just the coolest human being.

There are quite enough sheep already - be a shepherd: be somebody who's bold and who leads.

I get along with Eva Marie really well, I think she's really cool and I get to hang out with her a lot and she's a lot of fun to be with.

I would bake for my grandma because she has never had anything I've baked.

My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.

Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.

She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

As a woman, I think Margaret Thatcher felt she had to be ten times more prepared than the men.

I've trained women to be catch wrestlers. Shayna Baszler's a catch wrestler, she's clearly not a heavyweight. Megumi Fujii, far from being a heavyweight, and she was a fantastic catch wrestler.

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.

I'm so proud of my girl Kehlani. She and SZA are killing it.

When I'm pushed, I shove.

I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.