If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

The world is still very bigoted.

There should be a measure for happiness or sadness, like the width of your smile, the twinkle in your eyes, the depth of your laughter or the salt of your tears.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.