Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.

I can say that I am, by nature, optimistic.

To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

It's like I am glimpsing the possibility of living in a different way. I wonder whether it would be an easier life - less choked with misunderstandings and disappointment.

I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.

Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.