Jan Quotes

"I don`t understand the word `hunk.`" - "Calgary Sun, " Jan. 30, 2000

"She had on this white fur coat, her hair down, and her eyes pierced my heart from 20 feet away. The first thing I did was buy her 1,200 pairs of sunglasses to cover up those eyes. I couldn`t risk anyone else having the same reaction." -- fiancé David M. Navarro (Jane`s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers) on when he first saw her.

The two biggest moments of my life were walking on-stage (as an actor) in Tony Kushner`s Angels in America on opening night on Broadway. The second was being nominated for a screenplay Oscar along with him. (on Oscar nomination for Capote (2005) on 31 Jan. 06)

Ah, nudity. That`s quite a recent thing, the nudity. It`s an early autumn of my career. (Jan. 2006)

I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I`m in show business it`s considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic. (January, 2003).

(State of the Union address, Jan. 28, 2003) Freedom is not America`s gift to the world. It is God`s gift to humanity.

(regarding his ten-day jail term after his arrest for cannabis possession at Tokyo`s Narita Airport, Jan. 6, 1980) "It was pretty rough. Just a thin mattress on the floor. I had to wash using water from the toilet cistern. I had to share a bath with a bloke who was in for murder. I was afraid to take my suit off in case I got raped. But I`d seen all those prisoner-of-war movies and I knew you had to keep your spirits up. So I`d organize sing-alongs with other prisoners."

The distribution of power! Jan has the absolute power in the team - like Lance Armstrong...in the years of his Tour victories.

(T-Mobile`s Jan Ullrich and CSC`s Ivan Basso, two the great contenders for next year`s Tour de France, didn`t mingle with the top ten of the race. Both came in with the peloton nearly one minute after the winner, and finished 45th and 59th respectively.) You start to feel that the power missing, ... The season has been long, and the legs start to get heavy.

On Janet`s wardrobe malfunction: "With Jan, I truly feel that it was an accident. I think it`s totally unfair Jan (sic) took the rap for it. I also think that it was totally blown out of proportion. You have to think about this, too: Jan didn`t expose her breast. Justin did it. (Laughs.)" (Gaywired.com interview, 06.13.05)

I look up to Jan-Michael, I think it`s great for me to have him.

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

(Some customers, such as Bill and Jan Wright of Woodstock, use a wood stove to defray their winter heating oil bill.) I wish it were lower, ... We`re retired.

I talked to (the team) before the game about assists and about being team players. We had two assists against Philomath (Friday, Jan. 20) and we had 14 assists against Y-C. We only had one in the fourth quarter and once again they caught up with us in the fourth quarter, so maybe that was the problem.