Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.

As far as being married and what it means to me... it's nice knowing that I have a partner in life and that someone's got my back.