When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.

That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now.

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.

She wasn't ordinary, I liked her that way. Mystery oozed from her pours as she walked so lightly I could have mistaken her for an angel.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)

You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.