When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.

We wonder with our thoughts.

Speak kindly to and of yourself.

Live in the present. It won't last too long.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.