Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

Humor is very healing.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

The divinity you seek is born with you.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.