My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

I'm terrified of performing live.

For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

You can never stop discovering music.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called 'Pitching to the Star,' with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage - that was such a special experience for me.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

I have no issues with my identity.

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

I can fall asleep anywhere.

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

Geeks are finally having their day.