I want to be an actress, not a personality.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness.

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit; He will reign in you if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace, Mademoiselle, and you will honor in a sovereign way the God of peace and love.