I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

The world is still very bigoted.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

Right from the beginning, we were born into a world where the ego rules, but when we came to God and received the new birth, we entered a world where love rules

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

My older movies, I find easier to watch.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.