Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.

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.

Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust.

Strive to follow your big dreams. If you fail, cherish the valuable experience gained during the process. There’s always a second time.

Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

I see God every day... For God is in everything I see.

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.