I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I don't have a political bone in my body.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

If you rest, you rust.

The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

Party is organized opinion.

Some dead people said smart stuff.

Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.