"If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway."

“I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?”

“To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do”

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.”

“I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.”

“I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.”

Source : "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

“I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.”

“Spirituality promotes passivity when the domain of spirit is defined as outside the world. When this world is the terrain of spirit, we ourselves become actors in the story, and this world becomes the realm in which the sacred must be honored and freedom created.”