I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

The world is still very bigoted.

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

It takes suffering to widen the soul.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

The greatest health is wealth.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.