The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.
I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring a thesis something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
I worked before I had my daughter enough for three actresses.
Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.
Oh write of me not Died in bitter pains but Emigrated to another star!
O suns and skies and clouds of June and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
I have to say my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
Pity and friendship seek different habitations.
I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
We can live a life full and complete thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.
All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.
The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret the face is transparent.
A small step in a good direction.
I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain in a way.
I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.
When you first entered the restaurant I thought you were handsome... and then of course you spoke.
I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.
You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.
I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited not because I am such a great mom but for me.
You either have a baby want a baby or don't want a baby but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.
I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.
I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.
Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.
I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings their problems.
Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.
I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.