I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.

A lot of times I play a fat woman with cats who has no boyfriends. And in real life, I'm allergic to cats and I've had a boyfriend since college.

I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted woman, because those people aren't as fun or funny.

I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each individual relationship within that group coming together is such a special thing.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

I always thought I was different.