"The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more."

"I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here."

"I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food."

"You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented."

"The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous."

"The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined."

"'Suddenly Susan' is my life."

"My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery."

"I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me."

"You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart."

"I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not."

"I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned."

"Have faith in your own thoughts."

"Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth."

"I could never, ever have an abortion."

"I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown."

"I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength."

"I always sold other peoples' fashions, so I wore jeans and t-shirts, and I put on what they needed to sell, and I'd sell it. So as far a nurturing my own style, it took me quite a long time to do it."

"Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns."

"What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about."

"What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about."

"I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage."

"I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'"

"I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television."

"If my girls are rude, it's over. There is no place in the world for it."

"From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire."

"I am a city girl I think, at heart."

"I have always liked lionesses. Female lions have always seemed like the best. They were really strong and took care of their babies and are beautiful."

"I don't ever feel like I have it all together."

"Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience."

"Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy."

"Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way."

"Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?"

"I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door."

"As soon as there was two there was pride"

"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."

"As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else."

"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity."

"Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book"

"There is a hook in every benefit that sticks in his jaws that takes the benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will"

"No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him, I shall never die."

"Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world."

"As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else"

"At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole."

"I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind."

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."

"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right."

"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."

"Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art."