My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

The world is still very bigoted.

An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.

I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”"You were you. And maybe that was enough.

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

I began writing as an experimental writer.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.