All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'