I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.