Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.
Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.
Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.
C. S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry. The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers and the math of it will never be able to reach that.
I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk about it and say 'Oh this is what we are supposed to be doing' and this is the relevance. But how do you do that with your hands instead of your mouth? How do you do it every day, instead of just onstage, how is it enacted? And I feel like that is one of the ways that we can show what we believe, by how we treat people around the world.
Calling has this weight that somehow we think that your calling is fixed. That your calling is this line that you’ve finally found and now you're on that track and that’s what you’re gonna do forever and maybe that's the case. But I feel like calling has much more to to do with the moment that you’re in.
The shadow proves the sunshine.
It is true, I thought. I am living a life.
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U. S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.