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I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

I don't think I'm a diva.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world, with a real gift for invention: attention-demanding performance artists with a flamboyant, compelling sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien.