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" Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone. "

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" Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. "

" I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that. "

" My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. "

" I try not to judge my characters. If I'm looking at it from the outside, I'd say, 'No, she's not really a great mother.' But she wishes she were, and she wants to be, and she still has instincts toward protecting her son and wanting him to be a happy person. "

" I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day. "

" I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. "

" I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes. "

" It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads. "

" I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.' "

" The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own interests guide their actions, not necessarily the laws or principles we think our country rides on. "

" I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. "

" I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base. "

" The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. "

" We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting to play different notes on your keyboard. "

" I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. "

" As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI. "

" There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment. "

" I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it. "

" The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. "

" I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative. "

" I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. "

" I've definitely taken more family-friendly roles. Honestly, sometimes the edgier acting roles are not age-appropriate for kids but I have taken more projects that I feel have a great message or my kids can watch because of their age and that were just plain fun. "

" When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. "

" I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in. "

" We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. "

" I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. "

" We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace. "

" I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. "

" I'll talk to myself out loud a lot. "

" There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop. "