Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'

The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.

I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

Every success stories will have an inspiring tale of failures.

Speak kindly to and of yourself.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.