I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

Painting is a hobby for me.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.

Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.