Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

It's hard to balance work and family.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.

How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

Prayer without gratitude is more like complaining.

I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!