My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

It is only by giving our very best to the present

The only power you have is the word no.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.