Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

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

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 want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded.