I think it's important to do great work.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

God loves us mucho, so much that He desires more, much more for us.

Be authentic, not a copycat.

Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.