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When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

I know I've made the right decision when I've followed my heart.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

I try not to be overly analytical.

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

You can't get work without working.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world ... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

More yoga in the world is what we need.