During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.
I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.
I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
What happened is, when I was doing 'Taxi,' the last year, we did this thing where we had on top hats and tails, and we pretended to tap-dance. And I said to myself, 'You know, I always wanted to know how to do this.' So I got myself a teacher, and I started studying, and I got hooked.
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
I think a natural look is prettier. I rarely wear makeup, but we always wear sunscreen on our faces.
Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
Girls shouldn't be afraid to look messy. They shouldn't have to always fit in with the pretty girls. Our goal as women is not to impress guys.
We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
