But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

The press seems to love pitting women against each other.

You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

If people aren't able to see your magnificence that's their loss, not yours.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.