As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.

When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Acting is my calling, not my career.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I’ll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?''A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that's it. And that's how "Stand By Me" was really.

Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.