I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

suicide is not just killing yourself, but the world outside

The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist, ' meaning the atheist needs just as much substantiation for his claim as the theist does for his.

Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.

People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

I really hate pain. I'd pull my own soul out if it meant I could stop the pain.