Quotes

I've worn costumes all my life. I'm a theatre actress, you know. That's what I do for a living. I dress up, I wear makeup, I make a fool of myself.

I think that, as you get older, you become less focused on yourself and more focused on the people in your life.

I'm out and proud with my terrible haircuts and jumpers. I think my younger self would be amazed at the way my life has turned out, actually.

Now I'm coming up to 50 I'm sort of bound to play people who have children. Do I mind? Not in the least. Other people's perception of you is how this industry works. It's what I do, but I have a whole real life which is nothing to do with that perception of me.

I have a very strict delineation between who I am and what it is. I very much do this for a living and it's not my life. I think a lot of people in my industry define themselves by their work and it breaks my heart.

I'll be a host for life!

Be free, and live life fully.

I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to travel to new places and try crazy things. I'm a bit of a daredevil, so I have done things like zip lining, parasailing, scuba diving, and reverse bungee jumping!

I'm not looking for anybody or anything. I'm just living my life.

I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.

I think America is a great place to grow up. It's a good lifestyle.

If there is a camera or someone making a picture or - just do the things you always want to do, because if you start thinking about everything, then you start changing the things you would do. And that's not the life you want to live.

I just live my life and do what I want to do and don't think about what is written about me.

I would want to bring up my children. Therefore, I have no dream to make my mark. Instead, I enjoy economic freedom my hard work has given me. It means that I can give my children the best start in life.

Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.

Sometimes things happen in life, and you kind of need a friend.

I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.

It's always been such a big part of my life to be fit and healthy and be outside and run and play sports. It gives me energy. Sometimes, I have these days where I don't do anything because I have the days off, and I just need to relax, and I actually get more tired.

For my brother and I, Maureen was a key figure in our life. When we were little, we were probably closer to our nanny than to our parents.

I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I was a stylist behind the chair for over 20 years. then a salon owner and migrated into hair product manufacturing. I've pretty much lived and breathed hair in many different phases in my life.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.

I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.