 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...

Wit is well-bred insolence.

I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.