Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

The world is still very bigoted.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses.--"Tango

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.

If you have a friend with a blond mustache, he wants to touch you.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.