When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.
I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.
I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.
I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.
The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.
I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.
It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.
Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.
I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.
Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.
The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.
From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.
Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.
If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.
I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.
I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.
I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.
'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.
My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.
I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.
There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.
