Fear focuses the mind.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.