You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?

One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.

I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

Friendship's like a relationship between friends.

When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart. I cry, and then I extend my hand to help heal my heart.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.

Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.

What we think about and talk about expands into action.