I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

An attitude of gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of life.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.

The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.

The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.