My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

The outside world can be very tough.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

What you want in life is possible to achieve. Find the courage and begin the work

Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!

If your dream dies, dream another one. If things don't work out the way you've planned, God has a better plan for you.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.