I faced challenges as a kid, but who hasn't? A lot of people have experienced far worse. I was bullied, sure, and it was painful at the time. I even quit high school to get away from it. But I've never been the kind of person to let my past predict my future.
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt.
There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.
My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.
Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
I have my family; I'm never alone.
I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
I've never boxed in my life, never been in a military base in my life, never grew up with anyone in the military.
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
I have never had another job and I don't have a mortgage.
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.
I've never felt like I had anything important to say.
I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.
I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.
Security is an endless race - one that you can lead but never decisively win. Yesterday's best defenses cannot fend off the attacks of today or tomorrow.
Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.
I have never once celebrated a Valentine's Day as a romantic holiday. For me, it's another opportunity to tell my kids or whoever how much I love them. I hang pink crepe paper and make heart-shaped pancakes!
To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.
He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
I never got any advice in acting.