Quotes About Connection

I feel like her personality lives through me. How she was and how she acted lives through me. I smile when people say, 'Your mom used to do that; you're thinking just like your mom.'

People will pass and I'll connect with them and they actually won't be actively involved in their family's lives.

I understand that for an average working mother it is difficult to take out lots of time for their child. But make sure that when you are with them, you cuddle them and listen when they share their day to day activities.

I feel like L.A. is my actual home.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?

You adapt to who you're photographing.

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost like you have this personal connection to the original material.

I've never adapted a book I didn't love.

One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.

Find a place where you add value to a community.

I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.

Social media can be so addictive.

I don't have social media, and I'm not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.

We can all look to our friends, family, and those we admire for inspiration.

I love working with people I admire.

I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.

If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love.

If I admire someone's music, I'll walk up to 'em and tell 'em.

I'll tell you something: I am such an admirer of Glenn Close.

I've always known I was adopted.