As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.