Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.
Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.
I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.
A lot of times, in film and TV, they just want you to play yourself. But, when you're someone who's more of a character actor, you get to experience what it feels like to play a bunch of different kinds of people. I find it more invigorating than challenging. I definitely trust the writers to give me the material that I will take and turn into the person that I'm playing.
We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.
The Good Wife was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that Ive had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of work begets work actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced.
When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.