I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame