I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

If you can write it, I can be it.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.

You are dharma. You are a wheel. And the wheel of dharma spins.

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

I like someone who can take the reins, who knows what they want and is strong with me.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.