I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

There's nothing giggly about Heather usually. She's the opposite

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

The Force is within you. Force yourself.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.

What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.