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" As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role. "
Focus
Finding
Actor
" Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person. "
Have Fun
Fun
Deep
" He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous. "
Mind
Feeling
Love
" I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack. "
Again
Obsessed
Joan
" I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor. "
Just
Clean
Worry
" I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into. "
Things
Know
Work
" If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat. "
Up
Heartbeat
Give
" If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that. "
Intelligent
Know
Some
" If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel. "
Kind
Watch
You
" I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are. "
Limitations
Idea
Gifts
" I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty. "
Feeling
Someone
Dressed
" I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children. "
Children
Other
Health
" I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster. "
You
Drunk
Glasses
" I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy. "
Think
Thought
School
" I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it. "
You
Way
Try
" I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking. "
Important
Family
Try
" I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big! "
Friend
Good
Try
" I would do a musical, but I can't sing. "
Sing
Musical
Would
" My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. "
Pictures
Good
How
" Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon. "
Someone
Diet
Trainer
" There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett. "
Woman
Unless
You
" There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors. "
Good
Work
Small
" The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up. "
Warm
Up
Noticed
" Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's. "
Character
Time
Bond
" Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room. "
Room
Whenever
Had
" When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle. "
Out
Change
High
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