"I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids."

"Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house."

"I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else."

"I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me."

"We ask advice, but we mean approbation."

"It is a enduring truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors."

"The true measure of a man is the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."