You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

Don't fear the world and you will conquer it, fear it and it conquers you - rjs

A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in it.

At school my nickname is the National Anthem girl.

My role is to set everything in motion.

Live each day as if it were the last day of your life because, so far, it is.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate

Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.