Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

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

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.