I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending the deficit the bailouts you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

Now being a girl I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot rode jumped and took part in all the fights of the boys.

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.