I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

I am very bad at taking compliments. Even in school, when people told me that I look good, I could just manage an awkward thank you and a smile.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

The truth is that when Lennon is Bosephus, she is so mean to me. She can't smile because the mustache will come off. So in between takes, it's just scowling. And then when we are on camera, Bosephus treats me like a piece of meat. I'm repulsed and also attracted to it.

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.

I love to see the smiles on people's faces when you cook for them. I love to go to different restaurants. I want to cook because I know this acting isn't going to last forever, and I want something to fall back on. It's another way to make people smile.

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

I love to smile.

I can retire from football with a smile on my face.

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

When you smile, you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

Once every lunar eclipse, you should be able to see me smile!

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

I'm a workhorse. I'll take anything and everything I can get, and I'll do it with a smile on my face.

You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

The thing that makes me feel the most confident is definitely my smile. I like that my smile and my facial expressions really show what I'm feeling, and my smile is the best way to show that I'm happy.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

I love kids a lot. I love to spend time with them. They give me the energy to live, and I would love to bring a smile on their faces.

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I'll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don't soil the delicate dress fabric. The whole time, I'm telling myself, 'Please don't sweat, please don't sweat.' I throw the tissues out right before I step out of the car, and nobody ever knows! I just put on a smile and fake it.

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.