I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.

...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

I think that age is a number. Right now I feel good and I'm playing well, so I think that 36 is good.

Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?