I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Years are not important, my dear.

I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I prefer to die fighting than living defeated

An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth.

Knowledge only becomes wisdom, when it is utilized and produces fruit that makes it possibleto reach the goals that God has set.

Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

I was an elementary school teacher.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.