I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?
Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.
How do I play the princess thing? I don't, really. I don't like talking about it much and find it annoying when people say things like, 'Oh, you're the princess.' One of my best friends jokingly says, 'Hi, Princess,' and I say, 'Shut up.' It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.
I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.
For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.
Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.
I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.
Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.
I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
It's such a weird thing to try to plan a baby around a TV season. There's a three-month or four-month window in the summertime to have a baby and hang out with it a little bit before hopefully going back to work, so we were just very lucky.
That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
