What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.