One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.

I graduated from college and went on one job interview and was laughing in my own head because I wouldn't hire me.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.