I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!