Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.

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. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.