Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights

[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.

At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.