The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.

I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

I do like to treat myself, I just don't do it very often.

I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.

Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

Husband and wife are like a pair of scissors, joined together for life but always moving in opposite directions. If anyone comes in between, they join together and cut them off.

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision.