I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.