My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

People with evil ideas will think and do as they have learned, but those people with good ideas have the responsibility to show them the way of love, way of truth, and the way of peace.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Mexico will pay for it [the wall], because they are not doing us any favors. They could stop all of this illegal trade if they wanted to immediately.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.

I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.

Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.