If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

Once you wake up and smell the coffee its hard to go back to sleep.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the language than in knowing your own.

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

War crimes trials are always messy, but holding this trial in absentia would be extremely troubling to a lot of people.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

I was a chatty kid.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence transform our lives and give us necessary complexity and depth.

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.

If I don't need to shoot the ball, I won't do it.

Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the healthcare fight, and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.