The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.

I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child.

Is it true cats wont stay in a house when it's haunted?

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

I love my wife more than anything in the world, but boy when she had our babies, it quadrupled. There's just something about the connection.