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

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

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

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~