What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.

What's interesting about Topher [Grace] to me was, he's playing a 29-year-old virgin, which was really kind of hard for me to believe in real life, you get my drift? I mean, that was really not possible. And somehow he pulled it off.

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.