I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?

That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.