Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

Everybody f-king does it. I suppose I can't say 'everybody' because I don't know for sure, but come on...It's just the tiniest sprinkle of Botox twice a year. I think most women do 10 units, but that freezes the face and you can't move it. This is just one unit, and it's just sprinkled here and there to take the edge off...Perhaps it's not wise to put that in a magazine? But I ain't hiding anything.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.