I can say that I am, by nature, optimistic.

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.

To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.