I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

I am a very selfish person.

I'm the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?