She Quotes

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

Calvin Johnson
- She
- Bad
- Mom
From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.

Pete Burns
- Up
- Friends
- Movie

She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

Nalo Hopkinson
- People
- Business
- She
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.

Martine Syms
- She
- Pretty
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

Uzo Aduba
- Life
- Women
- Mother
Liza, in terms of sheer talent, just oozes with it. She has sheer energy and stamina, which she gets across the stage, and the way she delivers herself to the public is a good influence. There is a lot to learn from her

Freddie Mercury Queen
- Good
- She
- Energy
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Lady Gaga
- Music
- Remember
- Hope
In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

Charlotte Smith
- People
- History
- Education