When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Love is the beginning of understanding.

What are words without the melody?

Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.

People are going to be upset in life no matter what we do, Bexley. Might as well go big or go home. (Jude)

When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.

Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.