I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I’m contemplating...

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

I wasn’t really interested in doing television. I don’t have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

Now I feel like one of those Rodeo riders. I’m on top of a wild horse that won’t stop jumping and kicking, and it is really exciting but I grab on to his ears and...

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It...

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You’re cleaning up vomit and it’s 2 in the morning, and you’re wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

I didn’t plan to act, but I’m glad I’m doing it-and I just want to keep getting better.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can’t even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife’s dream, to be an actress part-time.

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won’t think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and...

My career is every housewife’s dream. Someone drives you to work, when you get there they make you look beautiful, they feed you… and they bring you anything you want. And you get to finish...

For a marriage to work, for a relationship to work, it requires commitment and a lot of work. There are times when it’s not so great, and times when it is. But there has to...

Acting’s not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I’m not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it’s because they’re a mess underneath.

I’m the type of person who likes to know exactly how many steps she will have to take and when she should look up.

I know that in order to be considered successful, you’re supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

That is why it’s so fun to make movies… you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

I wanted to write something from a child’s viewpoint… Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was...

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

Look, I know he’s been married three times before. I accept it, but I don’t want it driving up the driveway.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

I didn’t start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what...

I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasn’t important to look exactly right.

I have a lot of male friends. That’s good. But that’s all I want right now. Keep that sort of thing away from me.