It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

It's important to being a healthy person. So while you're here on the earth, you might as well enjoy it. And it's hard to enjoy things when you're crazy.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

When you can give up approval and appreciation seeking behaviors, then you will become true to yourself and the universe.

An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape.

Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is

It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version. It's not a gimmick. It actually improves the viewing experience, but the movie stands on its own.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.