Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.