My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

I'm not a stunning woman.