I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.

Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

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