I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.