Pretty Quotes
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My breakfast consists of two cappuccinos and maybe a toasted English muffin, and that's pretty much it for me unless I decide to go a little more upscale, and then I'll have scrambled eggs.
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I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.
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Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!
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I live a pretty anonymous life.
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In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
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I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.
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My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.
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There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.
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I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good with that, since he has a bazillion things to do. When I do see him, I try not to talk about dental work or anything like that because I know the Brits get very sensitive.
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I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
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There's a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don't think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.
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When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, 'Wow! How does that happen?' But pretty much, from there on, everyone's been so lovely.
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I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
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As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.
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I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song. Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.
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I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.
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On game days, I'm pretty boring: I like to rest and watch TV with my legs up so I'm not on my feet too much before the match.
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I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.
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I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
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I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.
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Actually, you can make pretty good cash on stage without being a comedian or a stripper. My brother once won a talent contest by fartin' the song 'Dixie' through an oil funnel. He not only took home 500 bucks, he got to meet Regis after the show. Who says dreams don't come true? (p. 11).
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It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.
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I don't have much of a wish list, but I'm dying to work with Erykah Badu. That's pretty much my dream collaboration.
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Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.
