I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Don't be absent from your own life.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

Max: Why do I get the feeling you’ve played god and you don’t know what you’ve created.Dr Hurstville: Hasn’t god done the same with us?

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

Perfectionism is a lost cause.Focus your energy on beingthe best you can be.

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way.

Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.