There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily

You're just so lucky blood's so hard to get out of the carpet.

On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother.

We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.

In this complex world, we all need God's Divine wisdom and guidance more than we ever have before.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.