Me Quotes
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My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
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Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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No one wants peace more than me.
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It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.
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Life has not been boring for me.
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Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
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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.
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I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
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It's not important to me that people understand me.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.
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People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
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These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I'm not eating for the fat kid inside me.
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
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My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
