I’m one of seven kids. That’ll keep your ego in check.

It was a lot of fun. I felt like I was being allowed to sit at the big kids’ table. It was very overwhelming – all of the history in that room.

Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything – how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I...

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky....

Oh, we’re going to have a great time.

I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that’s my biggest challenge. Different words mean...

I watched ‘The Muppet Movie’ obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I’m...

I didn’t get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who’ve inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.

She’s grounded in an honest place.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there’s anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

I always had a larger view. I’m interested in real life – my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles...

It’s a tough category to predict. I certainly don’t expect to win. I don’t typically prepare speeches. Maybe I’ll do a little internal list of people I want to thank.

I think that I’ve always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there’s a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that’s something I...

I’m just grateful I didn’t have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body – meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who’s 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

Ashley is a role for me.

I find that it’s the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to...

You’re always surprised. Even people who were considered locks for a nomination were surprised. This year, there are so many first-time nominees, 14 out of the 20 in the acting categories, I believe. I’m sure...

Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pretty. Until I realised that’s the stupidest thing you can do because people are...

I’m not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it’s something I really need to know.

I’m pretty Sicilian if I’ve been crossed. I don’t seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that...

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

Ashley decided that before Madeleine even got there that she is the best person ever,

I’d love to be a diva. But I’d then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

I still think I’m like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That’s still my mentality, so I’ll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do...

I’m very excited to be here. It’s much bigger than I expected.

When you’re picking up and moving, it does create… well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt...

There’s such a work ethic involved in theatre that you can’t learn in L.A.