I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.

When it comes to exchanges with people, I think, the more genuine you can be, the more giving you can be, the more you will, in the end, feel fulfilled.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do

You'd think with all the magazines and the covers and all the sexy stuff I've done, that that's hugely a part of me. But even though I've played those roles and I've dressed up and been on the covers of these things and done this and that, it is all such pretense. So I just thought, "I can't be one of those girls. I wear bib jeans. I don't wear underwear like that. I don't move in the world like that." You know, I'm more bare-footed Rastafarian, crazy.

I just thank god that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.