Quotes

Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

I love the arts.

Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

I love working to push the industry forward.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

This is a broad thought, but loving yourself and having the support so that you can love yourself is the most important thing that young people in Chicago can get.

I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.

I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album 'Like Water for Chocolate.' Creatively, I felt like I'd hit a ceiling, and I needed something else to express myself, and I just decided to take acting classes.

Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things.

I love zoo sanctuaries.

Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.

People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

I love house music. I love all music.

I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

I love playing women who have the nerve to do things that I don't have the nerve to do, and Berta is certainly one of those.

I feel like the reason I've survived in this business is because I love acting.

I love acting better than anything, and I do it better than anything else I do.