Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn’t going.
The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night. '
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
I feel like I can't fully understand what's happening now until I really understand what's happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you're trying to study so many years' worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.