it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.
Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.
For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.
Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
Now it wasn't just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was, 'Nope, they're married, man'.
Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating involved. The sex scenes are very uncomfortable because that's something to be protected, so you have a visceral reaction to not exploit that.
I've tried to divide my time between the US and New Zealand, but it's difficult, and I suddenly realized that I like acting here in Los Angeles anyway. Because when you first come here; especially from New Zealand, you go, This is the ugliest, nastiest, grayest, smoggiest town in the world, and then your scale of beauty adjusts and suddenly you think, Oh, isn't it beautiful, not too much smog today!
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. . . . We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.
My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.