I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase ….

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't ….

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was jus….

I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that and showing w….

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend..

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you fe….

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just m….

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it..

There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have..

There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And i….

Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in re….

You can probably ask my husband, and he might tell you differently, but I feel very much like I'm kind of cautious in my real life..

Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers an….

Women just get really hard on each other..

Just looking at each other is something really moving to me, more so than the nudity..

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves..

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'.

I don't want to ever say to somebody, 'You don't have to see it. It's not good.' I'm done with that. I'd love to just do things that I respect. That ….

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk ….

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor..

I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember….