But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people..

I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough t….

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy..

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19..

Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked..

I try to take off the rose-colored glasses and view it in all facets, but I probably would be lying if I didn't say that probably the way in for a fi….

At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I think, empathetic and sympathetic to the film. I would never….

That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't….

I will say from the outset, I think if you're great, you're great from the very beginning. And because I do think it is innate and I do think it is a….

In 8th grade I started doing theatre and I remember it was as though I had taken a trip to a foreign land that I had never seen before yet felt compl….

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must..

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor..

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business..

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds..

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies..

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete..

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise..

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines..

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy..

I think the beauty of chat rooms is that you can have your anonymity of course, and you can choose to be raunchy and sexy and bold. Or you can actual….