I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

It's hard to balance work and family.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

No friendship is an accident.

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

No one is as simple as they may seem to be.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.