I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

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.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part

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