I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.
I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.
If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.
We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.
I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.
I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.
Point shoes are torture devices.
I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.
I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.
People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.
Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.
Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.
I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.
Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis.
