You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
Every life, I think, has that potential because I believe each life is a gift of God. . . because God is love.
Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't necessarily want. The only thing I ever wanted to be was an actress. But I was called by God.
The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.
The mission of the media is to reflect the community to itself, to give the people a vision of who they are, what they're doing, what they want, what they need. I think motion pictures have been an incredible gift to humanity. I can't imagine living in a world without them.
The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love.
Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don't) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness and leave everything at the gate and go in and expect to find Jesus.
Of course {I'm bisexual}. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.
For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.