The only power you have is the word no.

I am an ordinary person.

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I never trusted good-looking boys.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

Satan doesn't want the gospel to be preached in the whole world because he is afraid of what comes after that - the End of the Age. Matthew 24:14

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.

I'd like a nice piece of salmon that's not too pink inside and yet isn't too dry or crisp either.

What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.