Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

If there is no perfection of a work, be sure the perfection of a plan.

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

People who are following their dreams inspire me.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.

The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.

My mother says healers are born, not made.

It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.