"In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record."

"Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life."

"I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life."

"I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car."

"Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting."

"My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe."

"If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have."

"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."

"Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all."

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

"I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble."

"I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase."

"I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids."

"For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career."

"When I was growing up in New York City, my "father "was a taxi driver for a time."

"I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter."

"Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done."

"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."

"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 think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen."

"I try not to be overly analytical."

"You can't get work without working."

"When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough."

"Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging."

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

"I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it."

"I like someone who's suffered from both sides."

"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."

"When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!"

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

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

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

"I was raised by free-spirited people, though "my "father gave me a very strong work ethic."

"Independent films have a very different cachet than success films."

"More yoga in the world is what we need."

"When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy."

"I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important."

"Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?"

"I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman."

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

"I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment."

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

"The industry's memory is quite short, it's true."

"But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy."

"When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal."

"I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh."

"You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life."

"I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice."

"Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to."