Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'

I don't want to work all of the time.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

There are great characters on television.

The thing is, you don't want to overact or be full of yourself.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

I remember too, a distant bell...and stars that fell...like the rainout of the blue.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.