Diablo Cody Quotes

The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

I feel like I am an inspiration. That's the word I prefer. I don't believe that I have to be a role model, someone to be emulated.

When I look back at my career, I was always trying to be this particular 'Celtic Warrior' character.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.

I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

I am better than my reputation.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Don't just view me as an actor.

I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.