"I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets."

“That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.”

Source : "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2001.

“It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'”

Source : "Helen Mirren confronts the final female taboo" By Sarah Rainey, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 4, 2013.

“You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.”

Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.80, Rodale

“It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.”

“While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.”

Source : Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

“I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.”

“I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness”