I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

I feel like every day of my life is a funny wardrobe malfunction!

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

I don't think there is just one Louis Vuitton woman. That is why, for the fall/winter 2011 show, I loved the idea of lots of different characters - a wife, a mistress, a girlfriend - stepping out of the row of hotel elevators.

I'd like to start trying different fields of work. I don't want to be stuck in just comedy, and I'd be interested to try to break into the movie business because it's so much different than television.

I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.

If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

I'm not someone that wants to control everything. I like to work with people that bring their talents to the project. So I like it when the makeup artist has a chance to do their work, when the dresser does their work, when the director does their work. They all come with stories and ideas to think about.

We wonder what if we got rid of cash After all cash is what keeps terrorists drug dealers and gun dealers in business.

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age but they die young.

Never give up. Great things take time.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending.

I'm not a diva - not yet, anyway.

Do not confuse my bad days as a sign of weakness. Those are actually the days I am fighting my hardest.

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.