I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it.

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.