I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

The only power you have is the word no.

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

I think that life force is invaluable.

We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.