I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

I never did think I had brain damage.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

It ain't what you do it's how you do it.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Popeyes and Taco Bell. I try to be healthy, but they're just so good.

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.