I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

You cant take good health for granted.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

Fashion is more about feel than science.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

Business is a matter of human service.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.