“I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.”

Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

I can’t wait to have kids; I just can’t wait to hold a baby in my arms.

I don’t think I realized that the cost of fame is that it’s open season on every moment of your life.

My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you’re younger. But I haven’t abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It’s just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can’t convincingly portray at this age.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

I wouldn’t have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I’m so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It’s just stupendous.

You can be true to the character all you want but you’ve got to go home with yourself.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody’s heart, because who doesn’t like to laugh?

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don’t think your high-school algebra teacher should be one of them.

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I’ve had in my past worked for so long is because when you’re making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don’t even see the person.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

It is in some ways the best expression of what humans are able to do. Nobody else can make that! And it’s delicious.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in

Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women.

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

The success gene lives in every person regardless of the results they are presently getting – we are spiritual beings and spirit is always for expansion and fuller expression.