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.

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

Sean's a great, great writer.

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

I have always been a good mimic.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.