I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that shes thinking.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.

Great spirituality, Great soul!

Limitations can be reasonably expanded. We are constantly challenging our limitations. But a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.

This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain.

Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.