Me Quotes
-
If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
-
As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
-
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
-
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
-
I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
-
It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.
-
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
-
I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
-
Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
-
One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.
-
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
-
People might not view me as competitive as I really am.
-
I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.
-
In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nobody can definitively say what separates one from the other, but that doesn't stop everybody from trying. Your book probably will be perceived as one or the other, and that will affect how it is read, packaged and marketed.
-
That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
-
I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
-
There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
-
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
-
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
-
I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.
-
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
-
I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
-
Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
-
We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
