I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Commitment is the foundation of focus.

Honour follows those who flee it.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

Look to the Heavens, you can look to the skies. You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin