We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

Any situation was better faced with an empty bladder, a clean body, and a lack of morning breath.

I went to do Eclipse right after The Runaways, and I think the director of that movie might have said to another cast member that he had to beat the Joan Jett out of me.

The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

To kill or not to kill, that was the question that haunted me.