I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

As long as you care as much as I care, you can't be ashamed of anything.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.

I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!'

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.