Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring.

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.

You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.

Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to get warped.

I have a lot of fun. I'm passionate about what I do. I really love that.

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

HIDEAWAYPreserve thatsecret, homey spotin your heart, as sanctuary where dreams may be softly tended, and revived.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

‎I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

I always wanted to be a writer.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.