I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'
Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But yeah, when the other doors open, why not walk through?
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.
Mum: I am fucking furious. I am so uninterested in a life without your father.
I am not a extra-ordinary person, In the same way I am not a ordinary person.
Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!
To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!
I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.