I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good.

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. I definitely believe in a lot of chemistry and lust at first sight. I think that love is something that takes work.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Applaud my idiocy.

To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".

I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry and of criminal inquiry too.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

I've come to really believe that I have something to offer as a filmmaker, that goes beyond what I had to offer as an actress and maybe this is what I'm meant to do.

If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.