The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.

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

I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.