If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

If you can write it, I can be it.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.

God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished

I want to motivate the world, basically.

You can't have 'yes' people around you.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.