You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work

~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

I got married really fast and really young.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.