No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.