Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.