I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.

I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. I think it's so cool.

You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it’s over.

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

Doing something completely different than acting for awhile is really important.

Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it.

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when I wasn't able to control it.

I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.

I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.

If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind