America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted 'til it was already gone
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
I feel like I can't fully understand what's happening now until I really understand what's happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you're trying to study so many years' worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
Sightseeing was. . . based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives. Unlike in the eras of Vincent Van Gogh and Abraham Lincoln, there is now professional help available for those who suffer from emotional illness. Treatment may require therapy or even medication, but hope is now available every single day in practically every city in the civilized world.
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history. . . The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.
You know, we do a lot of complaining here in America. And that itself is something they can't do in a lot of other countries.