I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body.

I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.