I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I've never had my heart broken.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.

Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.

Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Back, back, back, back. Gone.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

I don't really go for the swagger thing too much.