My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

I only grow hair in places that men like.

When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.

What is the purpose of living? If not to make life less difficult for other people.

Singapore is the happiest place in Asia

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.

I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.