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

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.

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."

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.

Spiritual awakening is an identity shift. You are God!

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling

I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.

Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.