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

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

You have to embrace getting older.