Cajun stomp?" "You heard me, swamper. And keep your hands to yourself.
When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.
The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.
My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.
Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?
With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.
Everybody's got a bully pulpit now, and everybody's mad. I don't blame people for being angry and frustrated about everything. I'm old, but I'm not pulling my pants up to my tits. I take deep breaths of air when I enter a room and celebrate the fact that I'm alive.