I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family.
I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.
I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it's cool or looks cool.
I was 21 and I got to film with my best friend.
I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.
If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?
The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
As for Hollywood, I've got a killer job, and I'm having a blast. I have the luxury to go on trips whenever I want and invite my friends who can't afford it. And, God willing, I'll be able to do all that till the day I die.
If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.
The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.
I've still got a twinkle in me.
I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.
I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.
I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.
My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.
In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.
I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
