As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody’s taken care of. I know I can’t sustain that level all the time, so I’m finding...

My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she’ll say she was a wreck. There’s plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be...

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn’t include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

We all live in a time where we’re supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to...

Do we need distance to get close?

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody’s worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that’s been helpful in my marriage.

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I’m not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He’s so fast.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn’t matter to a certain segment...

I don’t know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn’t been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

We didn’t have a lot when I was growing up, and it’s the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for...

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don’t know why. I just get embarrassed.

I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly.

I love, love, love being an actor – it’s still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I’ve always been someone who likes a busy day.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I’ve tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

Can you really forgive if you can’t forget?

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

I wouldn’t know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

You can’t be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat,...

I’m a bitter-ender. It’s potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to...

It’s like the riddle of the Sphinx… why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I’m less Pollyanna now. That’s probably healthy.

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your...

I’m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain...

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

I just wasn’t one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

If you have a child, you’re improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We’re not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about...

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It’s like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I’m very lucky.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

My son doesn’t know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that’s so incredible to be around.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that’s just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

If you’re in a series, you can’t quit, you can’t work in the theatre and you can’t do a movie when you like.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

I don’t believe in email. I’m an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn’t necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

What I’ve learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.