I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.

Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.

I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

I can't stand unpacking.

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

My inner child is not wounded.

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question.

You just have to keep believing in yourself.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

There's not one cast member of 90210 who didn't throw a tantrum to two themselves.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

There is no such thing as a crazy dog person in New York. Are there people who are completely insane about their dogs? Hordes. But cat people may as well have whiskers and tails themselves. That's because their pets' lack of social need taps straight into our worst fears as the human inhabitants of New York.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa - that's the story of my life!

I did 'Good Morning America' with David Beckham. Oh, god, what a handsome devil that guy is.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players.

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.

I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.