I'd like to keep exploring comedy. I didn't necessarily think of myself as a comedic actress, but it's a lot of fun.

You do what you can. You have to leave room to grow and make mistakes.

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

We never truly "get over" a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.

Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.