I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.

And I've had vocal training on and off for years.

Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

I get paid to not laugh.

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.

The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

People will hold your hand through the darkness but then let go when they find the light.

I know what soldiers or their families go through.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!

All my films are about kind of being seen to be one thing when you're actually something else, and the power of the female spirit to make things work your way on your terms. Which is what I do.

I was never a prodigy.

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.