What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.
No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.
Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.
The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.
When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.
If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U. S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.
They hadn't even gotten their first paychecks yet,. . . My biggest thing was giving them a sense of reality and what costs would be. We outlined costs and a budget, and by the time we finished they said they could take maybe one vacation a year. They started to understand reality versus their dreams.
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.
I talk about the food issue, I'm really coming at it from pre-White House times, when I was a working mother with a busy husband, a very demanding job and two little kids to feed. . . . I had to learn what it means to feed and care for your kids in a country where fast food is abundant, where time is a rarity, where eating out is a trend, because families are so busy. . . . Yes, I'm First Lady, but I know the struggles.
The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we must remember that we are within culture, and our calling in Christ is to play our part in the redemption and transformation of individuals and cultures. I believe the recent history of the religious subculture teaches all too clearly that unless we are moving forward in seeking the genuine transformation of culture, then we are standing still and it is transforming us.