It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'
I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.
Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'
Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.
This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.
Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning.
If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.
Everything I do from now on, I'll have a mustache. I can promise you that. I don't care who I have to convince. If you see me with a mustache in a movie or on stage in the future, you'll know that I pitched the idea.
When I'm out for a walk or out shopping, then I'll probably have 20 different conversations a day with people about Blackburn Rovers. You can't really escape from it. I am still really proud to come from Blackburn. It is a place I still hold very dear to my heart, which is why I want to stay here.
Once every lunar eclipse, you should be able to see me smile!
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.
Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.
No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.
I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don't look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for a cup that you see out of the corner of your eye, and when you feel it, you know you can grab it.
You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.
It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
