What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.

Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."

I'm not a drug user myself. I'm too little to take drugs - my body can't take it.

I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.