I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

I still look like a duck.

You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady.

One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.