I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

I love smoking. I miss it every day of my life. If I found out that it didn't cause cancer, I would go out and buy, like, eight cartons right now.

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.

I'm ready to do some classics. Maybe I wasn't in the beginning. I weighed 179 pounds when I got to New York, and I had that thick Southern accent. I still talk Southern, but I can do without it.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!

There's always that key to every character that lets you go to those places you need to go to. No matter how much you might hate the character, it makes you understand it.

Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.

Bring solutions, results and change to people

Don't be afraid, " Elisha answered, "We have more on our side than they have on theirs." (2 Kings 6:15 GNT)

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested.

Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.