I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family.

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.

To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

The great, like stars, are not afraid of dark times for that is when they shine the brightest.

Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.