The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.