In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

It's hard to balance work and family.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.

Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.

Nothing but trees.

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

I like to think I'm some savage realist.