My life really began when I married my husband.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.

Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.

Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.