A lot of guys come up talking about The Waterboy. I get a lot of that. Misery, Delores Claiborne and The Waterboy, those are the main ones I get.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?

Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. "I am alone and they are everyone, " I thought–and pondered.

The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

We doin it big. Look at what I done. Look at where I'm is. It's only just begun.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

I was terrified of funerals.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.