American Quotes

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

Art is for everybody.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

Nothing is important... so everything is important.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

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.

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'