Actress Quotes

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

Life does not owe me a shred.

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

I'm painfully middle class.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

I have everything I need. Our house is very joyful.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!

I definitely have my days where I look like I got dressed in the dark.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.