I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

Compassion is that special ingredient that is often missed, and it makes a difference in building a positive environment.

RECURRENT CURRENTSLike the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional ripKamil Ali

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

Vision = Focus / Focus = Attention / Attention = Action /Action = Results / Consistent Results = Destiny

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

We are the playthings of the gods.