One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.
For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel.
I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.
I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.
Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.
There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'
I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.
A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.
Some advice I would give myself from the Spirit Squad years - try and get taller.
There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
I had opportunities to be a lot more successful, but for some reason or other - the way I was particularly genetically wired - I turned down a lot of opportunities.
I've got some repenting to do.
We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.
I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?
I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.
People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with.
As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.
We've been probably to some degree too successful.
Most of us have faced a - faced a serious budget problem or another at some pivotal moment in our lives.
Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.
