I love books.
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I’m a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they’re interested in tend to really influence me.
There’s something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.
But listen, I’m 29-years-old, I’m really lucky to be there and whatever happens I’ve been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I’d be really content.
[On asserting herself] They want people they can push around. I was the girl who was always asking, “Why? Yeah, I know you want me to do that – but why?” I always thought people wanted to hear my opinions. (Grins) But I gave them anyway. It’s just blind self-confidence. I get like a little terrier about things. My mother says I should have been an attorney.
When I was a question on Jeopardy!, that’s when I felt famous!
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
