Reba McEntire

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn’t like. And what they had an idea for, we didn’t like. So, we went home.

Easter is very important to me, it’s a second chance.

I always thought that was so strange that people would try to corral you and pigeonhole you in one category and not play you anywhere else.

You don’t waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

If there’s anything that I can do with my time and my day to somehow make a difference, while I’m alive, imma try to do it. Period.

I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

Music is all I know.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

I still like to get carried away – but passively.

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

Amy Poehler made it clear that she wasn’t there to be cute. She wasn’t there to play wives or girlfriends in the boys’ scenes. She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not f**king care if you like it.

I’m just incredibly fortunate that my eyes and ears have been opened. I have to be honest with myself and remove as much of the repetition and fakery as is humanly possible. To soothe the savage heart, we have to repeat ourselves sometimes – that’s entertainment.

You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to f**k it.

You don’t even realize how much you need Internet, but it really stops you from doing a lot.

I’m from the ghetto side of Sydney. We don’t really do drive-bys, we just do drive-thrus.

I’m a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

We don’t want to be influenced, just informed.

We’re all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn’t let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn’t let us watch ‘The Flintstones’ if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of ‘The Honeymooners’. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old ‘Honeymooners’.