When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.' That's the mantra I keep trying to tell myself, 'I'm doing the best I can.'

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Our dreams define our sacred destiny.

But Death was cunning.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.