We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me..

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings..

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater..

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health..

I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype..

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I ….

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue..

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to ….

I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours..

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a p….

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck..

You express different energies at different times in your life..

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as wel….

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be real….

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement..

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't hav….

I'm always dying to do more comedic parts, I love it when I get to do something really overblown like Crazy, Stupid, Love that can just be silly. The….

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear..

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect..

A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye..

I am really touched and surprised that your generation [of millenials] feels that way, and I'm really happy the work stands up. But that show [Seinfe….