I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead so….

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must….

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather..

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy..

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that peopl….

Pity and friendship seek different habitations..

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now s….

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow ….

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewis….

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging..

All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air..

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisationa….

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and g….

If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what h….

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then anoth….

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank..

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in ….

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers..

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward..

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award..

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses..