I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

I appreciate very much being injury-free.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

I never look back, I look forward.

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.

I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

I am a person who sticks to her word.

I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description.

I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

When you lose a couple of times it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

I don't ever look back. I look forward.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

I love having other people sing my songs.

I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

Remember, if a man needs to pull away like a rubber band, when he returns he will be back with a lot more love. Then he can listen. This is the best time to initiate conversation.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.

The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.