I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

If we knock on the door until it opens, not taking no for an answer, our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

I did theatrical caricatures.

At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.