Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

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.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

Never doubt what comes from the heart, your feelings know you better than anything else.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.