I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

It's hard to balance work and family.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

[Jesus] said, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.…For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Matt. 9:10-13). Jesus opened up God’s heart to men.

We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness