I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.

I don't have time to worry about looking cool.

I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.

I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on Dynasty or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

A busy schedule can be difficult, but I have the best husband on the planet. He supports my endeavors, and we work as a team.

Every secret deed lays opened before God.

This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.

I would say [Lamar] Kendrick, it's always fun to see what happens when Kendrick takes the stage. And my two oldest kids are huge fans of him.

Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right - he'll keep you company, be your friend, never ask you no questions. Cats is different, but I never held that against them.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.