Joan Allen Quotes

I'm the No. 1 cheerleader for the state of Iowa.

I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.

I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.

I used to cheerlead back in high school.

There's nothing better than being head cheerleader, let me tell you.

When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.

My cheerleader part in 'Fired Up!' is really funny.

I was a cheerleader for nine years!

I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.

I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!

It is a special, weird thing being a cheerleader. You need to want to yell and perform, dance, and wear a cute little costume. It's a thing you're kind of born with or without.

If you're a cheerleader, people see you. If you're a mascot, you're just helping out.

I don't want to collect any paychecks as a cheerleader on the sideline.

My favourite sport is cheerleading!

I was a cheerleader in high school, but I love to play basketball.

Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence, enabling me to build myself up on what I contributed rather than what I looked like.

The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.

The world of cheerleading is incredibly demanding, incredibly physical, and it has a lot of risk. The way people fly through the air is so thrilling to watch, but it takes hours and hours of practice and training.

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

For the Patriots, you can be a cheerleader for four years. They can be four consecutive years. You can do two years and take a break, and then come back for two more years. I've actually only completed two years, two seasons with the Patriots cheerleading team.

I'll always be a Golden Eagle

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.