Quotes

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young.

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the 'Beatles' especially, and then the 'Rolling Stones' and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our 'nouvelle vague' in Britain, films that talk about real life.

I've played the wicked mothers; I've played the serial-killer-type mothers now. They have to have an edge on them. They can't just be everyday moms, because I never thought of myself as an everyday person in cinema - I'm an everyday person in real life, like anyone. But not in what I project out there. I want something more exciting.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the show.

I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job.

This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million.

Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

I would never sign up to film my personal life.

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.

You got to live life.

I think you should be a fan of something first if you intend to spend your life around it. You're going to have days when things don't go your way at the track. On those days, you just have to realize they happen to everybody in his sport and basically just suck it up.

If you sit in a box all the time and don't do anything fun and don't live life, you're probably not going to do yourself any good. I refuse to be that way.

I'm trying to live life and drive racecars and be good at what I can be good at.

I'm not one to guarantee things in my life.

There's no guarantees in anything you do. But I hope there are many more weekends I can race in my life, and high school graduation you only do once.

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?