I do sometimes feel like the paparazzi are really what ran me out of L.A. They're just giving everyone a bad name.

Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against bad plastic surgery. I'm against the overuse of plastic surgery.

When I go to work and when I'm in the public eye, I take much better care of myself. Because when I'm not working, I do indulge more.

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

You've got each other's back. I think if everyone shows up with that attitude, then everybody has a great time, and I think the work is better as well.

Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

I still look like a duck.

I guess I do a really good job at covering.

I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

My father was very strict, but mostly I just didn't know how to behave on a date.

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.

I can't imagine myself blowing up supermarkets!

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

When I first started out, I said to myself, if this doesn't happen there will be something else that I can do. That seemed possible because I knew how to do so many different kinds of jobs.

De Niro is a classic example of somebody who is iconic and who sort of effortlessly puts actors at ease the moment you meet him. I think it's also just something that he innately does with people.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

I'm a Taurus. To the bone.

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

If I do a move I don't like, I don't want to get so upset with myself.

I used to do drugs in high school. I've been living in L.A. for almost 10 years, and shortly after I arrived I cleaned up pretty much. Stuff goes on on the set, stuff goes on at parties.

I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

I'm always amazed at how consistent people find me and my behavior, when in fact I do feel different all the time.

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.