I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.

I want to do something I feel like I can do.

Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

I don't want to be my own boss. I want to be my own colleague.

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

I love to work with people and do what I love.

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the area of their gifting.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.