I find it more consoling to think of myself as little than to think of myself as big. I think I've gotten that from animals, particularly dogs. Dogs live such a modest life, and they don't live long,...

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No...

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

I qualify myself like a bottle of wine - the more I get older, the more it tastes sweet!

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have...

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued...

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

If I'm alone, I tend to cook for myself. I do a pretty good job of preparing healthful foods. My go-to is everything in a bowl like quinoa, avocado. Later in the day, scrambled eggs. I'm not a gourmet...

When I was 12, I was living in Iowa, and I emailed so many wrestling schools, and one of them was actually in Boston. I joined it at 18 - the New England Pro Wrestling Academy. They were doing a...

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that...

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be...

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to...

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.