I get paid to not laugh.

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.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

I think it's possible to have a vision for your life that goes beyond any circumstance of anything that you've ever seen, and I encourage people to do that. But I don't think that any of us can do that in a vacuum.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

I went to Holland Christian High School in Holland, Michigan, and to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.

I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream "secular" press has been very, very nice.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

Listen and be led.

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.

I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion.

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'