Me Quotes
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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Acting has never excited me.
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'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
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I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
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I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
