Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.

I wish everybody in the Republican Party had rejected Mr. Trump and chosen someone else.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.

I love working with Rashida Jones. We just have so much fun together.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.