Me Quotes

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.