I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.

I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.