Me Quotes
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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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 was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
