I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

My first wife didn't like to fly, either.

You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep." "I only did it once." "Once was weird enough, thank you.

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.

This January, Kevin Costner will be honored by the Palm Springs International Film Festival for his contribution to film. This gives Costner just two months to make a contribution to film.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.