If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.