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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.
I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.
I haven't gone home with anybody who tried to pick me up in a long time.
Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.
Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.
I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.
Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.
Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak.
The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.
I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.
We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring
Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.
If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.
The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
I've done a lot of independent films that not a lot of people have seen.
I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.
In normal life, I'm just kind of chill. I don't normally get that angry.
I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?
Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.
But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.
It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.
I just am a huge fan of PBS. They've taken great risks from great shows.
All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground.
The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.
As long as you care as much as I care, you can't be ashamed of anything.
With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.
I love kids. All my best friends have kids, and I love, love, love kids.
I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.
'Sharp Objects' is honestly one of my most exciting reading experiences.
Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.
I feel like I'm that typical new parent that's nervous about everything.