I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

Work is no longer challenging.

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I have the right to shine my light! That's what all women have. Once you own that, you can almost always shine your light.

Do not be held a cheat even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

Goodbye 2010. If you were a fish, I'd throw you back.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens as by his opinion of what happens.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

There's a view of Montana writing that seems stage-managed by the Chamber of Commerce - it's all about writers like A. B. Guthrie and Ivan Doig. It used to bother me that nobody had a scene where somebody was delivering a pizza.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

I think its imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession youre passionate about and if you havent found that spark yet if youre not sure what you want to do with your lives be persistent until you do.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.