Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
I was very rebellious.
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said, 'Maybe you could go write somewhere else, away from your house. ' And sure enough, all kinds of wonderful stuff emerged. She was keeping too much charge of herself because she couldn't stop being a mother when she was in the house. You have to find your own way of letting loose, if you're one of those people.
There is ripe fruit over your head.
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.