New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.

I'm funnier now because I'm braver and less full of hate, so everything is even more ridiculous than it was before.

With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.

There are a lot more roles for men than there are for women. So men get their fee up by sheer quantity of material.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

I don't think I would get married again; I don't know if I'm a very good candidate because of all the touring I do.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

I don't love L.A. It's a great place to visit; it's a great place to meet and work, but I don't want to live there.

People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing.

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

I would love to branch out a little bit and... do a Judd Apatow type of movie. It just looks like it's so much fun.

I prefer cozy and warm to stark and sterile. You don't have to spend a lot of money to give your place personality.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do.

I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.

I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

It doesn't bother me if my boyfriend gets a lap dance when I'm there. I'm secure with myself so whats the big deal?

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

You look in my room and it looks neat enough but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

I'm blessed to have a dad who's always there for me and a mom who's always there for me, and they're on good terms.

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

In the beginning of my career, all I did was drama, and I couldn't get arrested doing comedy; nobody would hire me!

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the team.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.

I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

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