I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes