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" If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture. "

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" It's not difficult to take care of a child; it's difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you've had a baby is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you're exhausted, and you really don't want to clean up the kitchen now. "

" My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort. "

" Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven. "

" I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.' "

" I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off. "

" As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A., and I liked the East Coast. That's why I ended up in New York. "

" I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable. "

" I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling. "

" I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational. "

" You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it. "

" I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles. "

" Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak. "

" I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25. "

" Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection. "

" When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too. "

" We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama. "

" I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home. "

" The one thing that kids need is consistency. "

" You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again. "

" Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. "

" She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started. "

" Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out. "

" When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.' "

" It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. "

" I love going to Scotland. "

" Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore. "

" You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side. "

" We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things. "

" The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together. "

" I love clothes - I love shopping for clothes, I love wearing clothes, I love talking about clothes - but oddly, putting on the dress and walking around in front of people, that's the place where I'm most uncomfortable. "