Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.

[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.