The Emmys are honestly very unpredictable. I mean, have you looked at my Emmy record? I was nominated 6 times for ER and won once.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me, since the day I was born.

Every tree bears fruit in its sacred season.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

Within us there is the capacity of being anyone or anything