Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

The jobs don't get married. The people get married.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.