Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. I think it's so cool.

You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it’s over.

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

Doing something completely different than acting for awhile is really important.

I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.

People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.

Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

Fall was slipping quietly into winter

There is no justification for having an affair.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.