Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with.

...And her tears turned into blood, because what she was losing was thicker than water.

With acceptance comes change.

yearning n. and adj.At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.

I have no regrets about my life.

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.