“There’s something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There’s something very there’s safety in that.”

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it’s all very upfront. I can’t hide it. I’m also loyal and I hope I’m fun.

To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I’m very medical. I come from a medical family.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people’s lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

You’ve got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

Ultimately, you’re left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

I’m very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.

Whatever you do in life, don’t give up on your own dreams.

~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.

The journey of life – we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don’t think you ever abandon any of them.

Don’t you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

Allah created the bonds of family, so Who are you to cut bonds that Allah has created.

I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family’s been…we’ve been enjoying each other’s comedy for years.

When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it’s better, and in a lot of ways it’s worse. That’s life, right?

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I’m doing. I tell them I’m doing family.