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" A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime. "
Moment
Joy
Film
" Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there. "
Beauty
Loving
Us
" Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard. "
Husband
Better
Divorce
" For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done! "
Music
Birthday
Blue
" I don't know a single woman in her 40s who isn't incredibly full of life and sexuality and desire for everything. There's nothing sexier than life experience, and there's nothing sexier than knowing your own body and having a little bit of experience with that. "
Own
Woman
Life
" I feel like 'Nashville' can go on indefinitely. "
Like
Nashville
Go
" I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher. "
Mother
Singing
Up
" I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting for?' Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life. "
Father
Mom
Waiting
" I'm booby and kind of curvy, so I definitely need to wear things that work with that. I can't just put on a muumuu, because it looks crazy on me. "
Need
Crazy
Kind
" I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently. "
Love
Business
Food
" I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie. "
Movie
Therefore
Who
" In many ways, the South can be very traditional and confining. And what is interesting to me is how women find their way around it. Those obstacles create an amazing sense of humor, of fun, and, ultimately, of integrity. The fiercest and savviest women I have ever known are the women I grew up with. "
Humor
Fun
Amazing
" In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting. "
Me
Story
Night
" In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease. "
Struggle
Identity
Night
" I started hearing people say, 'There's a blog about your hair, and there are all of these Tumblr accounts.' I'm like, 'What's Tumblr?' I'm pretty mystified by it, because I look around, and a lot of people have great hair. "
Great
Pretty
Look
" I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. "
Marriage
People
Sense
" I think the most important thing about the Emmys stuff is just to enjoy it. It can get really stressful in weird ways, and I have definitely experienced that. This year, I really just want to have it be a fun celebration! "
Weird
Important
Fun
" I thought it was a terrible idea being a supporting character on a football show. "
Thought
Character
Football
" I try to put as little stuff into my hair as I can, which tends to be the best for it. "
Little
Try
I Can
" It's daunting to play a real living person. "
Real
Daunting
Living
" I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C. "
Thought
Mother
Me
" I was so green, and my background was mostly in theater. The only thing I'd done in front of a camera, besides an infomercial and one commercial, was 'Brothers McMullen.' "
Background
Green
Only
" I was thrilled when I heard about the Time's Up campaign's legal defense fund for women who've experienced harassment and sexism. I'd been longing for this movement to extend beyond Hollywood. "
Hollywood
Movement
Time
" I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock. "
Say
Life
Music
" Just drawing on my own experience, I never - I never - personally reference myself as old. I don't think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man. "
Man
Drawing
Experience
" Let's put it this way: The older you get, the easier it is to date younger men. There are more of them. "
Date
More
Men
" My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was. "
Mountains
Top
Rock
" My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one. "
Used
Write
Family
" My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational. "
Degree
Whole
Theater
" Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then meet up with friends at a diner. There's nothing better than sipping coffee, eating scrambled eggs, and taking three hours to do it. "
Home
Weekend
Walk
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