I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

The world is still very bigoted.

One's duty is always and everywhere to be true to one's own experience.

How do you minimize the awkwardness in that moment? What are some of the conversations starters you've used to open, encourage, and support enjoyable and beneficial conversations?

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.

I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.