It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.

It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

I'm happy with the idea of being a mum first and an actress second - I'm perfectly content for people to think of me as a stay-at-home mum, rather than an actress, if that is their perception.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage not of its soldiers but of its bystanders.

It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two by four.

My blood, my roots, my soul is in the state of Montana.

The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a certain amount of education was required to make the system of repression work. You had to have people who showed up punctually. You had to have people who took their orders obediently and understand them fully.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

Love is like the wind you cant see it but you can feel it.

When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.

I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the final page and switched the computer off.

I have found the one that my soul loves.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

I wear pink on Saturdays for breast cancer, and I wear blue on Sundays. I'm superstitious. At the Evian tournament in 2010, in which I came in second, I wore baby blue on a Sunday. And ever since then, I've worn it every Sunday. Puma sponsors me, so I wear all their outfits in bright colors. I wear matching hair ribbons, too.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

I love improvising.

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.