Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
We've got tremendous dumping of steel into our country and aluminum into our country - all manner of products being sold in our country at below cost, stealing American jobs or depressing wages.
Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'
I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only way to be in touch with your emotions.
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.
I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
The way the British 'Office' got away with being so dark was that it only had 13 episodes. There are realistic elements that people obviously enjoy, but they don't necessarily want to relive the trials and tribulations of their average work day.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
I love making music, and I love touring. I love that I get to wake up and play music. I don't like being away from my wife and kids.
In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.
