Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he’s very smart.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Your feelings have a natural shelf life.

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.

If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him- he isn't worth a crap.

A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.

A bombing was planned [in Syria], which would probably make the situation worse, but would at least establish US credibility.

The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.

Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.