Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

There are no limits, you are only limited by however far you want to be limited

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

I believe that the polling data that shows people give Obama 53% approval, I happen to think the polls are right. I just think people are not being honest with the pollster.

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.