Brandy Norwood

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you’ve done and all these great people that you’ve worked with.

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

I’ve seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn’t matter how we met. We met. I don’t want to say that we’re a couple. I can definitely say that he’s somebody in my life, and I’m definitely interested but I’m not serious with anybody.

I’ve always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I’m right on schedule.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

America’s Got Talent’ has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.

I forgot better shit than you ever thought of.

In the middle of everything that I’ve done as a singer or as somebody who’s jumped on top of a few old books and turned ‘em into songs about hobbits f*cking vikings, I think I’ve danced a beautiful dance through it all, without becoming too much of a cliche. I’ve enjoyed the two-step. It’s brought me great gifts.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men’s advances as long as they are in cash.

There’s no comparison between the most precious parts of one’s personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can’t relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

[on getting the part of Cedric] I knew the casting director from another movie which I did, and they wanted to see me for this part, but I was doing another movie over the casting period, so I ended up seeing Mike Newell and Mary Selway and Fiona Weir – who were casting at the time – before anyone else was seen for casting. And then, I went to do this other movie, and then the day I came back… I got a call back and basically, that’s what happened.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

I was bored one day so my Dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for a job.

[about the showbiz lifestyle] It’s all too much trouble for me. It’s probably because I’m fat and lazy and old.

There’s something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.

I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.

[on Sarah Palin returning to Fox News] First tonight, I and the rest of America woke up this morning in the worst way imaginable.

Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger did a really bad job as Governor of California and even worse on the Apprentice…but at least he tried hard!

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. Ive been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I’m always convinced I’m not doing it right.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.