I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

It is technically a failure when you don't try.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.