I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

Our fellowship with people brings us closer to the Kingdom

Ours was not one of those nice, quaintly old-fashioned mobile homes that senior citizens putter around in. We lived in the beat-up tin can of clichéd poverty.

Not all who wander are lost

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for this little adventure. No more. Good-bye, Aspen.

When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.

It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

I want to be a homer. I'm getting paid for something that I love to do. I would do it for nothing.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.