I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Politics is a serious business dealing with serious issues and it should be taken very seriously, and seriously intelligent people should pronounce on political matters.

Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.

When I rode the train west, I went looking for something, but I didn't see anything wonderful.I didn't see anything better than what I already had.Home.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I write music. I'm in a band.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.