I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

Larry Kasdan wanted us all there, all the time, even if we weren't filming.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile.

I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave.

When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Self love does not lessen our ability to love others; it increases it. The more love we have within the more love we have to give out.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are by definition bad.

Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.