What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.