I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

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.

It's proper netiquette to add suggested friends to your social media accounts. NetworkEtiquette.net

We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Ive been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.