Any time you risk big you often risk losing big. You can win big but you can also lose big, but you have to be willing to take those risks.

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

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 don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.