Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.

I want to do something I feel like I can do.

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him.

There can be no forced inspiration.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.