I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

You can love me or you can hate me.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

There's no image we can't improve.

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

I am a small-town girl.

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

Attitudes are more important than intelligence.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.