I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

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

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

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