Dana Hill Quotations

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

I know all the critics.

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.