There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things.

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.