I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.

I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

I do like to treat myself, I just don't do it very often.

I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

Smiling heals the soul and fills the heart with bliss.

See your light.

The things I don't are the things I have yet to learn.

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

That's the thing about parents, I'm beginning to realize. You don't have to see them all that much to imitate them.

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.