One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

Why I enjoyed doing Iron Man because it opened me up to this new world where fans are so passionate.

I think so many people give us ideas of what we are. I think as women especially, because we're sensitive by nature, we're more vulnerable, we absorb other people's ideas about what we're supposed to think or who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to act.

If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.

I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink.

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.