I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.

Just because no one has been fortunate enough to realize how wonderful you are, doesnt mean you shine any less.

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

I'm very physical. It's an important part of being a woman - feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.

You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things.

Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.

I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate.

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.