Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.
There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.
Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.
I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.
Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.
Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.
Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.
Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
