Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.

Anybody who has curly hair knows you dont want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never ending tangle.

It was approaching midnight on the eve of my thirtieth birthday, and I was doing what most red-blooded American males do on their thirtieth birthday: I was in a bar getting hammered with my buddies.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb anddance; one cannot fly into flying.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

Whenever you're the leader in any industry, you get more headlines.

History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.

I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there's something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey's or Destiny's Child's any day.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I'd like to think I'm a little more easygoing than the character on 'Deadwood,' without question.

All I know is that when you look over at the coaches on the other sideline, and all you see are guys who either coached with you or played for you, then you know it's time to get out.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out or to hold something precious in.

Cosmic systems intertwine astral bodies drip like wine all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky cant explain the reasons why this is how creation goes.