In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.

I’ve never had more appreciation for anyone in my entire life until I became a mom.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

According to an ancient Sardinian legend the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

You see my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14 and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Comedy can be especially in a writer's room really aggressive kind of a very male-dominated room and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us the love of Black women for each other.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.