I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.

You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

In fact, most good television is better than most movies that are out.

Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.

I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us.

Leave it to her to want to pet a monster.

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.

To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently