And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
I'm the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room.
I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.
Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
[Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?
I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
I love talking about myself.
