I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.

I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it.

when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

I grew up in a very middle-class life. I'm grateful for it - it has given me a lot of stability.

I just count myself really lucky to have a career that I love and that continues to pay my rent.

I remember the '60s, I remember the '80s, but somehow I went directly from the '60s to the '80s.

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.

People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.

I have a fan base that goes everywhere from 5 to - I don't even know what age, but grown adults.

If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

Starting clean is a theme for me - starting fresh and understanding what's important about life.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didnt go to school because my home was my school.

The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.

Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am.

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from?

I don't like to go out to clubs, because I find myself seeing remnants of drugs in the bathroom.

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

I am a proud American, regardless of the fact that my parents were separated from me forcefully.

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