Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.