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

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.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road.

My friends love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving hopeful and optimistic. And well change the world.

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

I want to dunk on Kevin Hart.

Safety First is Safety Always.

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Europe dominated the world but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars.

I thought boxing was stupid.

It's hard to judge how you are feeling physically.

I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.

There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.

And for those who fear Allah, he will make their path easy.