My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

Our bodies are made to nurture and cuddle and all of those amazing things that come along with being a mom.

For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

if you belive in something then you should do it dont let anything stand in your way.

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

It's hard enough to go through puberty. Everyone's embarassed about their youth, but if just happens that the '80s were particularly disgusting. Flock of Seagulls is not cool.

Another one of your quippy japes?

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Very few people ever meet celebrities. All we really know is what we read about them and the most memorable lines are jokes. That's how we tend to define what we think of a public figure.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.