I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

When you decide to be all you can be you will be better for it

When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

It could just be a shift on the axis.

As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.

It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.