When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.

As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

That's one of my little expressions. I never really studied acting so I kind of kiddingly talk about "building your circle" and "mooding up," because I really didn't learn any technique.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.