There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

People want to feel hopeful.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

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

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

I hid myself in food.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

I like to let things breathe.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘