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.

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.

To an engineer good enough means perfect. With an artist theres no such thing as perfect.

Women are always at the front of revolutions.

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

There's no point in being committed to a vision if you're not equally committed to making it a reality.