Me Quotes
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
