I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Doing the right thing has power.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

Everyones got dreams, find the courage to follow your own.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate.

It's so much fun for me to sit next to you here.

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.