When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

I used to say to my dad, 'How did you and Mom stay married for all this time?' and he'd say, 'Two things. Number one: You gotta have the same dreams. One person can't be daydreaming about walking down the street in Paris, the other person want to work in a coal mine. Number two: We never wanted to get divorced at the same time.'