Do what you're passionate about.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.

Do what you're passionate about.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

I like shopping, and I like to drive.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.

After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money and time to sign 'Brutal Legend.' But doing so would have meant breaking up a team that had just learned how to work well together. And what message would that have sent to our employees? It would say that we're not loyal to them, and that we don't care.

I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.

I always think I am going to do my best.

What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.

Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.