It's hard to balance work and family.

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.

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

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.

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.

My ship came in, then it sank!

For the body tells all to him who knows the language, and doesn’t lie.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

I don't get embarrassed.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

Like people and let them know it.

A goal without a method is nonsense.