When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.
I don't know how I ever really lived before my husband came into my life.
I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.
When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.
Since I came here I've been treated awesome, in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here.
I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.
I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.
I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.
Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.
Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.
Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.
If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
