Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

Hillary Clinton is more in the center of things than I am, but she also knows how to work with the opposition, which is a necessary talent in politics right now.

One woman's poise is another woman's poison.

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.

We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!