Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

You can't fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.