You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.

It is imperative that those who name the name of Christ would be instructed in the truth of Scripture.

Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.

My body is in accord with my mind, my mind with my energies, my energies with my spirit, my spirit with Nothing.

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.