I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

We may not have the power to change, but we have the power to move.

For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality

Good part about life is everyone is broken...

Hopeful men do not die so easily.

When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.