When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

"Married with Children" was racy, it was sexist, it was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I was very rebellious.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.