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I don't feel famous.
Boredom is a great motivator.
I think that life force is invaluable.
We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
It is technically a failure when you don't try.
Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.
I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.
My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.
I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.
Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.
I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.
Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.
I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.
I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.
That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.