Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I’m never nervous.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.