I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

It is only an opportunity if you respond to the opportunity.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I love the idea of women taking control of their money. It's something that many women are not familiar with, but it's crucial.

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.