Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated..

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place..

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it..

When I say something funny, I don’t laugh, so my friends are always like, ‘Hahahahaaaa!’ so people know. When I’m not with them, I always think, This….

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make ….

Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself..

I admire people who find that what fulfills them is their art or their work, but what fulfills both me and my husband is our family. Knowing that, ev….

I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body..

I think it's very attractive when people cook. So I don't wear sweatpants. When you dress sexy to cook, too, it's like, damn, I got a girl who can co….

And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I thi….

My daughter is just as obsessed with playing in my makeup as everyone's daughter is. She paints our walls and herself and clothes and me. So I have t….

I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe..

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence..

I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do..

I love being at home and cooking and baking..

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need t….

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had reali….

I actually think that craft service was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first job being like, "Yes! I get to ….

I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more an….

Cheesecake Factory is great. It should have Michelin stars..

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them..