I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.
If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.
Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.
I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life.
My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.
I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
There's no time for boys in my life right now.
I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.
As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.
Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.
I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.
I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
I'm not looking for 'outer esteem' anymore, what they call 'other esteem.' I'm looking for self-esteem. And people think that self-esteem is built with accomplishments. And, 'Hey, look what I did in my life.'
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning.
My animals are a really important part of my life.
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
My life is raw, authentic, and focused on giving back to the journey God has given me; I want to leave this earth a better place with answers and education on Lyme and invisible chronic disease.
When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some holiday project and I would lose interest. I think my parents thought the same thing, and they were surprised when I kept going. I'm not sure I thought I would keep going, but then it became a big part of my life.
I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything around us, from Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy.
A lot of things in my life changed, but I'm still a party animal. I'm leading the pack.
Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.
I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken up by that. I can't imagine it being taken up by a husband and children and writing, and everything getting its due. I don't believe there is room for all of it. I really don't.
Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
