"I want to play interesting women."
"In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism."
"I'll say anything to live."
"I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one."
"I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously."
"I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything."
"I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives."
"Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'"
"I am definitely a worrier."
"I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress."
"You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper."
"As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience."
"I always do my interviews face to face."
"I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both."
"For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing."
"When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else."
"I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?"
"I'm too disorganized."
"I don't know anything about science."
"I love to take baths."
"People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans."
