Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

The game is meant to be fun.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.

All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.