People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors..

Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person..

It's not like I prepare anymore, or have to think about my son being dead to get emotional. If you're working with a good actor and you're reacting o….

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older..

Life goes so fast, and there is so much to do. But the moments that have enriched my life the most came when I slowed down and connected with the peo….

You serve the best by doing what you love the most..

I think most women these days can understand me juggling a career with being a mom because most of us do. I think I'm luckier than most because most ….

I just want to use all of myself, for the rest of my life, in every facet of my life, as long as I live..

There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films..

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away fr….

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning..

You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, ….

I think a lot of people become actors because they have a great reservoir and repertoire of many different emotions they felt over their lives. It's ….

My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a cliff, we have two choices: to turn around and run, or to j….

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to ….

I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I ….

When I do Pilates, or when I do work out, I feel better all day. Yet I still struggle to keep it on my schedule..

I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never be….

Since I first started acting, I never separated a character's sexuality from what they eat for breakfast. I just think it's sort of silly. If I can b….

When I had my son, it was the worst day and the best day of my life because I realized that I will never love someone so much, but I will never be ab….

I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinc….