Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.