I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."