Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.
When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.
Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.
Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.
I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
My vocation is to make my life an act of worship.
When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it’s the way the director wants it.
I’ve always been crazy for the American songbook.
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.
And of course there’s so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it’s obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
It doesn’t matter what you’ve done in the past – what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.
It’s up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it’s time to have kids.
I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.
Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don’t report it as much.
I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don’t stick around for 80 years.
I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I’m fairly lazy so I’m always interested in slowing down.