Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Good work is good work wherever it is.

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

Not only did the terrorists hijack planes and destroy life, but they also hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam and split the brother and sisterhood of mankind.

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

Preparing for another opponent isn't very glamorous. But it's Hollywood. You want to see the fun parts. The meeting rooms are not super fun.