I love working. It's one of the real thrills of my life.
Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.
I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.
I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.
I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.
I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
I've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.
I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.
I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.
I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.
My life now could not be better.
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
I've spent a part of my life focused on acting, so if there was an opportunity that I'm right for and I feel confident, I would definitely go for it.
Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.
I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
I've never been onstage in my life.
If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
My break in Bollywood is definitely the high point of my life.
I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.
Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
