After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.

I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.

The essence of love is concern.

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world