Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

If I measure each day by my list, the days are not always very good, but when I look at each day like it is their day too, because it is their day, well, then most days are better. A lot better.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

To break training without permission is an act of treason.

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.

It is love of my fan's that always makes me stand firm.

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.