Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.
It’s amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you’ve lost a lot of people, you realize that each day is a gift.
It’s sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It’s the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.