The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.

I can say that I am, by nature, optimistic.

To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."

Beyond certain age, friends do not come to your life with a design, but they essentially go out of you life for economic reasons. Friends you are left with are your ‘true friends’!

The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.

The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream.

Genius is initiative on fire.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

You can kill somebody, but I wouldn't advise that.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.

Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.