I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

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

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.