"I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest."

"That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time."

"You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time."

"I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes."

"To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with."

"You can't get work without working."

"You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you."

"I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world."

"I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!"

"It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing."

"Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it."

"Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth."

"I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in."

"I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world."

"So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done."

"For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract."

"I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy."

"I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that."

"I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art."

"I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship."

"There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy."

"Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in."

"My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one."

"I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart."

"It's always refreshing to step into another time."

"I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap."

"I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it."

"Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing."

"You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up."

"I was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away."

"I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was."

"I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.'"

"I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male."

"There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'"

"I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence."

"It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny."

"Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?"

"I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K."

"I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years."

"I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to."

"The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised."

"Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons."

"The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'"

"It's wonderful being the underdog."

"I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger."

"All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting!"

"Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?"

"It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film."

"I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress."

"The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that."