If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!
I'm a fan of action movies.
My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?
With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
I'm very blessed to have a husband who appreciates me. Women feel sexy from feeling attractive and desired. Men feel sexy from having sex. If you can strike a balance where the man is having sex a lot and the woman is feeling desired enough to have sex, then you've figured out the secret to a marriage that's alive.
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.
People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.
I think you approach a part the same way and just find out in what's making them tick and who they are. In a movie like this you may have a little less time and few dialogue scenes and exposition scenes for your character to really get that across, and so I wanted to be able to convey that she's not somebody who's just punching a clock but she has this weird emotional investment in her job to where she does get quite myopic and that's what makes her relentless.
I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.
Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.
As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
