Michael Phelps

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.