“Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.”

I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.

It’s an exceptional time, and it’s always the happiest time if you can be really present and doing the things that you want to be doing and surrounding yourself with the people you love. So, yeah, I’m in a good spot right now.

It’s amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It’s the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

Something that’s such a joy in my life every day – cooking – is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you’re sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.

It’s very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

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.

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.

Loving what you do is the secret to everything.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for ‘Pretty Woman.’

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I’d go out and have a couple of drinks too.

The man’s Bush embarrassing. He’s not my president and he never will be either.

I didn’t know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

I’m tall and smart. If you’re aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren’t very smart themselves.

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didnt really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didnt have a great love for it.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.