“I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath ...” — Angelina Jolie Quote

“I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.”

“If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!”

“I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.”

“When I have more of a pitch-by-pitch mentality instead of an at-bat to an at-bat mentality, things can speed up on you a little bit. To be able to take a deep breath and know that if I make this pitch right here is all I really can control in the moment, and then be able to just kind of go from there.”

“Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.”

“Before I step in the Octagon, I pray one last time and take a huge deep breath, and then I'm home.”