I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

I simply couldn’t conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children’s voices. Not to be able to communicate with them, to hear them learn, grow, and express themselves verbally. How fortunate, how blessed I am. This overwhelmed me. I can talk to my children, I can respond to their needs and comfort them when they tell me they are unwell. I can tell them stories and hear them tell theirs.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

Playing Juliet in Heavenly Creatures changed my life, and the role of Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened many new doors creatively.