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.

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.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

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.

It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.

I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

Birth is about radical creative life affirming change. It is about adaptation on a nearly unbelievable scale.

I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.

When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Life is just a bowl of cherries

I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.

I definitely had a Paul Rudd crush. He's great.

Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

Now you can get on Facebook and read an article, '10 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child Forever.' I'm sure it's making us better parents in some ways, but in other ways, it is sending us all a little crazy.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Cricketers have to perform in front of millions, and there are no retakes. If then you become a hero, you deserve all the accolades coming your way.

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.