The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?