My favorite food in the world is Mexican food. I'm not a dessert person. I'm more of a crunchy, salty girl. I could live on chips and salsa. I would take a Mexican meal over some fancy French cuisine anytime.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

The value of a good education has never left me.

The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.

I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

My walk is consistently made fun of.

Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.

I'm a Taurus. To the bone.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

A good thing never ends.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

Too much is never enough.

I can't get no satisfaction.

Dandelions don't tell no lies.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.