I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

No woman's getting hired because of her potential. I hope that we can invest more in female potential.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.

I always let my husband read the script so he knows what's about to happen to his wife. When I played Cheryl Strayed in Wild, I'd get really mad about certain things, I'd say really profound things, and I'd curse out of nowhere. He'd say, "Are you you, or are you Cheryl?"