The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails!