I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

Ive obviously got one of those faces that people can forget.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasnt pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.

The mind is its thoughts, the heart is its desires, and the soul is its experiences.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

Your heart is the face of your spirit, it holds everything you have been, you are, and what you are going to be.

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues.

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.