I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.

I think we've all experienced sort of becoming who we are as a reaction to what we come from.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

I can be a little acerbic.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

I always want to work.

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

There was so much testosterone in the air, I felt like I needed a gas mask.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.

A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling me about how an album is like a fine meal.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.