My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.