I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

I've finally gotten to a place where I can say, 'You know what? You didn't think I could do it, people.' But I did it.

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes.

I'm kind of fascinated by Paula Deen. I've been to her restaurant, The Lady and Sons, in Savannah. My friend was studying in the area, and we ate at her restaurant, and it was right at the cusp where Paula Deen became Paula Deen.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

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.

I'm not just a chick singer who sings high all the time.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

Most heartless people have a heart theyll just do anything to protect their heart even if it means that they have to break yours.

Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Become a fixer, not just a fixture.

There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.

Urgency makes the difference between practitioners, proclaimers and procrastinators.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.

I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.

Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.