Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

Thats why they call it work because its not what youd prefer to do with your free time.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.