Ruben Studdard

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

People don’t have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.

[on choosing films she will be in] I have a weird process, but the main thing is like this: I hear her voice in my head. There are a lot of wonderful scripts my agents can’t believe I pass on, but I do because I can’t hear the voice. It doesn’t appeal to me then. I’m really careful. Unless I hear the voice, I can’t do it.

[asked about the ways she is discriminated against] I get discriminated against in three ways: I get discriminated against because I’m blond, I get discriminated against because I’m an actress and I get discriminated against because I’m from the South.

Wow, that is hard to watch. Hi, this is Ted Cruz, just calling to remind you to vote for a man who insulted my wife and said my dad helped kill JFK. Anyway, life has no meaning. Thank you. I want to die.

I’ve signed breasts and bums. I’ve signed everything!

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you’re singing it from someone else’s angle. But it’s always from me. It’s just a new way of framing it.

Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

I don’t even listen to music when I’m off tour.

He was going to make it. He had a passion for driving a car … Adam was never interested in anything else.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good.

When you’re thirty-five, you can’t take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it…

I don’t see what the point is in growing up.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

I have no enabler bone in my body – not one. I’m sort of like, ‘Oh, are you going crazy? I’ll be back in an hour.’

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.