American Quotes

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.