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?

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

You have to embrace getting older.

You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't.

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.