I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.

I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.

Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

I can't imagine my life without animals. I have two dogs and three cats. Coming home and finding them all lined up at the door waiting for me has got to be one of the sweetest joys of my life.