"I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live."
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"Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real."
"I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating."
"I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on."
"Sometimes your fans are way deeper than you are. They think you meant something like this big power-of-the-world thing that you said, but really you were just trying to find a word to rhyme with another word."
"But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain"
"Why give up before we try?"
"I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me."
"I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time."
"Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful."
"I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves."
"I'll try anything once."
"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."
"Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed."
"And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me."
"Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves."
"If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing."
"If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship."
"I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing."
"We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do."