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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Arkadia wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head upon the muscular cliff face he called his chest.

To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

Life protracted is protracted woe.