I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.

He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.