My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

I don't think we could have given a more honest version of ourselves to the world than we did for ["This Is Mike Stud"].

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears.