American Quotes

This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Play fair, okay?

It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

I'm going to Malaysia to try and win a million dollars... how exciting is that?

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

I think God always has the best for us.

I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

Whatever happens, I'm ready to face it.

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.