"I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming."

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"None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning."

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"There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it."

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"Obviously there aren't enough Latino roles out there - I wish there were more of them - but there's got to be more in the future. I'm sure there will be more in the future. The public is asking for it."

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"The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way."

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"The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat."

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"Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time."

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"I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time."

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"I don't want my learning curve to be stunted by just all of a sudden doing work all the time and not being careful about the work that I'm doing."

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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."

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"I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber."

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"The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out."

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"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time."

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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

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"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."

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"I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places."

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"O Memory, thou fond deceiver,  Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever,  And turning all the past to pain."

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"You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day."

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