If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
I don't know how to let loose when I'm dancing to the music and the people that made the music are watching me. I've never felt so much pressure in my life.
I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's a journalistic enterprise, ultimately, even if you are using the memoir as a form.
One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.
I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.
There's never enough time to do nothing!
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.
I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.
Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.
We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
When I was 16, I knew I was gay. I loved a lot. But I lived as a straight guy, because there are people in my town who don't understand my story. I never told. I never wanted to show what was inside my heart.
I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.
I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
