I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.

Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.