Dark chocolate-covered blueberries are my favorite sweet.

The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.

I run, lift weights and do yoga to stay in shape.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

I loved Europe so much.

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller!

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.

Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better.

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.

I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.

Maybe I'm a control freak.

I love my life.

I'm trying to do the paleo diet. No carbs.

Running gets everything done, doesn't it? Covers it all.

I have Spanx on. Always! I have to wear them all the time!

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.

All marriages have their phases.

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

I'm not in the business of talking about what 'isn't.'

Love is possible as life is possible.

It took me a long time to grow up.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.

I've been so anti-tattoos my whole life.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I have such a little face.

Everyone has the answers.

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.

I like movies that make you think.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.