Me Quotes
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
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At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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In the last 'Batman' movie, they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban.' It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?'
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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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For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
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Lyrics are really important for me.
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I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
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Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
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After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn't interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.
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If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.
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It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'
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Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
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A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
