"Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige."

“The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.”

“I've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.”

“You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself. You're not going to be asking your parents.”

“We also knew we definitely wanted to infuse into the narrative the relation of women at different ages with motherhood, their relationship with their babies versus their partners', their overall "need" to have children, their fears and projections on their children, etc. All of this we put into a pot, if you will, and simmered for a while until we had what made sense to us.”

“The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.”

“People seem to trust you more when you're pregnant. I think they see you as some kind of Mother Earth figure.”

“Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.”

Source : "Old stone face cracks" by Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

“And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company