Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.

The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined.

Design adds value faster than it adds costs.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society to retreat ahead of it.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.