Actress Quotes

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.

I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

I don't watch a lot of television.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

I do not cook.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.