I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

Another method of handling a perceived negative energy is to temporarily remove yourself emotionally and physically, from the situation.

Winning has a value for ego, but participation has a value for life.

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

Funerals...are for the living.

Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.

Main Street is almost alright.