I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So I was lucky that the birth went very smoothly.

It's important to keep a balanced diet, but I'm not a fan of deprivation. If I want a cheeseburger, I am not only going to eat that cheeseburger, but I'm going to enjoy that cheeseburger.

You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.

I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

I once fell in love with a crab on the beach. It was called crab.

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

I think I have enough to be successful out there.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.