Quotes

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

I don't think cinema has the power to change anybody's life.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

I have done practically everything that I wanted to do in my life.

I like to think that today is the best day of my life and tomorrow will be the next best day of my life. And if you think that way, you're living for the beauty of today.

I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same.

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

I played with Graham Thorpe and Alec Stewart; if anything off the field affected Graham his cricket life was not important and you had to give him a break. But if Alec had issues at home you would never know about it; he would turn up and think: 'This is my job, I can do it.'

Tiger Woods is someone I'd like to ask questions of. I'm fascinated to know about his life - everything he goes through, is he happy being Tiger Woods?

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.