I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'

I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other