To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Don't be absent from your own life.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Be driven by your dreams.

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.

Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.