I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Every professional was once an amateur.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Anyone who doesn't focus on Jesus Christ and His finished work has neither the wisdom of God nor the power of God.

Beer makes people deaf.

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. - I'm not sure

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.