Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.

When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.