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" You can't leave the house without a toy car if you've got a son. "

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" Having a family has made a huge difference in the roles I take, so doing a show in L.A. is a huge factor. "

" If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations. "

" I love cooking - I make dinner pretty much every night. "

" I have loads of lip balm and lip glosses. Eve Lom Kiss Mix is one that I love. I also use a Charlotte Tilbury lipstick in Amazing Grace. In a pinch, I'll put some on my cheeks as a blush. "

" I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds. "

" I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed. "

" Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I like Dostoyevsky. I like the old people. I really do. I like people who write big, fat, juicy novels you can get completely lost in! "

" My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to. "

" There's no point of equilibrium. I'm either at home or at work, but what I try to do is to give my whole heart to wherever I am. "

" I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing. "

" I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs. "

" There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky. "

" To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me. "

" Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards. "

" I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one. "

" Juggling is the word. I'm a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance. The idea of work/life balance is a myth. There's teetering from one end and running to the other and hoping not to fall off. "

" I really like investigating the things that make us human. "

" I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness. "

" I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways. "

" We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride. "

" I always have Band-Aids, ideally ones with princesses on them, because they're the best. "

" This is the joke of me being a part of 'Lost': I haven't met three-quarters of that cast. "

" I've been quite protected from the whole 'Lost' phenomenon because I'm not one of the core cast. So I haven't had to do the press junkets that they have. "

" The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own. "

" I'm the absolute opposite of a hoarder. "

" I had all this other life happening, and 'Lost' was this sort of seasoning - but it was never the main course. It was just this thing that I would nip off and do, so to be recognized for 'Lost' all the time is amazing. "

" Life is full of contrasts. "

" Any time you cast an actor, you don't just cast that actor; you cast all their other performances as well. "

" You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given. "

" I like playing interesting, complicated women. "