I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.

You can't walk two steps without seeing a pregnant teen.

You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you?

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

I believe that education offers the fastest route to economic mobility. I grew up with a family of strong, accomplished, and educated women. I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior. There was never a question that I'd go to college. In fact, I was the last person in my family to get a master's degree, so that tells you I'm actually the underachiever!

I've been a longtime advocate of farmworker rights.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.