TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Don't be absent from your own life.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

You have to be involved to evolve.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess.