If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.

There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong

Everything that is old was once new.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

You look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese, everybody pours in.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.