My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.

Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

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

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.

My father always made an amazing meatloaf, and I've inherited his skill. Leftover meatloaf in a sandwich? Come on!

I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

I'd love to do a comedy like 'Bridesmaids;' I think that would be so fun. I would play the Kristen Wiig character.

Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.

I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

I think finding a character starts in hair and makeup, fitting room. That's where it all kind of falls into place.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.

My new favourite smell is new baby smell. It makes me so happy. If someone could bottle that, I'd love to have it.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

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