When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.

There's this whole sexy thing that happens to women when we walk the red carpet, and it's all okay! At home, I am so many other things! I am just a girl dreaming. I am emotional and goofy.

I like the influence and responsibility the Red Cross has become known for.

I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

Always be who YOU are, be self-aware, and love yourself tremendously!

I'd like to be able to see into people's hearts.

Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.

I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.

I would like to be remembered as someone who gave it all and went for it all, As a woman of strong conviction, character, dignity, and talent who always put God first.

I'd like to buy my mother her dream home. Hopefully it will happen soon.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...

Nothing is more magical than love.Nothing is more real than love.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.