I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

I'm pregnant with triplets now and I feel really good.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

I have a lot to be grateful for. I really do kind of get into the holiday spirit and try to find something to be grateful for anyway but this is the time of year so.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

Character is destiny

Never stop learning and never give up!

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?