C.S. O'Kelly Quotes

It's very rare that you get a group of people who are all passionate and driven and all get along.

I am always a big believer that if you work hard enough and you work out of passion, a person can do anything.

For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage.

Perfect first date would be coffee at Aroma talking for hours. That's when I would know to ask for a second date.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

I have the thickest skin of anyone you'll ever meet. No one can say anything about me I haven't heard a million times before.

I do sometimes worry about getting older and the fact that I am not going to be a model for ever...[But] The fact that Helen Mirren can look so great in swimwear is an amazing boost for all women.

I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it all, and that really called to me.

I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life.

I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily.

I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people having that kind of process within me.

Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.

I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me.

Hug me and you will see the moon. Love me and I will bring the moon to you!

I think I've done a pretty good job of not compartmentalizing my life. I take my core values and I live them out at home like I would in my snowboarding like I would at church with my friends.

As I've been open with my faith, there's a consistency that almost disarms people. They know what they're going to get when they see me. They know what they're going to get when they talk to me.

I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.

Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors!

I sound the same regardless if I'm 20 pounds heavier or 20 pounds light, and I think that's the key thing with my fans and why they continue to be loyal because I'm that type of person.

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

You don't know a thing about me

When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.

I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.

I've always been about less government.

My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

I've always dreamed that love would be effortlessLike a pedal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream.

Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.

In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.