I don't KNOW that I'd CALL myself an OPTIMIST.

I LEARNED a long TIME ago: You're in the ENTERTAINMENT business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely NOTHING to do with the other.

Gender EQUALITY cannot be ACHIEVED by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to COMPETE, learn, and play. The United States has had a solid HISTORY of commitment to its female athletes and expanding opportunity for women, and it is imperative that we CONTINUE on this path.

My MIND wanders terribly. I'm not WHOLLY ANNOYED by my daydreaming as it has been immense USE to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing NEEDS concentration - lots of it.

You have to have this straddling balance of REALIZING that games are incredibly COMPLEX. You can have an idea of where you want to GO with something, the structure of something, but the actual MOMENT to moment figuring all this out-it unravels over the course of, in 'God of War''s case, about FIVE years.

I dance. A LOT. I work grief and SADNESS out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and RHYTHM.

I want to HOST a religious show. I'm sure NOBODY will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on SUNDAY morning. I think we should really GET some of our own preachers and preach that gay is GOOD. And we'd have a great choir.

Where I GREW up, there was one supermarket, one SCHOOL, one HAIRDRESSER, and that was it. It was a very SMALL COMMUNITY.

If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your HEAD and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get SOMETHING BACK.