It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living..

I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm in a business where, on the set, you're around….

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family..

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me..

I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and as….

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not..

To really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. Just being an actress in Hollywood is very vulnerable….

I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they….

There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abus….

A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be..

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80..

The number-one reason women say they returned to their abuser is financial insecurity. Often they have kids with them. They say half of the 66 millio….

What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone ….

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime..

I find that men are far more vain than women..

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hip….

I know I love my kids and I know they love me. I know I have beautiful friends and a great family, and I know I've been really blessed in this life..

Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she'….

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human..

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange li….

I think there can always be beauty in struggle..