When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.

I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films.

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

I chase after inspiring stories.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.