I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

I have never had any success in planning my life, really.

I don't know how I could plan my career.

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.

I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.

I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.

I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.

The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.

I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.

I'm a very musical person.

I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.

There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.

I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.

I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.

Wii on Nintendo is amazing.

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.

We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused.

I was excited to turn 60.

Essential oils are extremely important to me.

At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.

'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.

I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.

There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

I'm a late bloomer.

I have hundreds of songs.

I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

Life is about surviving loss.

I learned not to care what other people think.

I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.

Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.

New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.