I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.

I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

I think it's important to do great work.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

The trajectory of nearly all technology follows this downward and widening path: by the time a regular person is able to create his own TV network, it doesn't matter anymore that I have or am on a network.

I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

I still bump into Spurs fans who say: 'Why did you have to go?' I say back: 'What more could I have done?' I talk to them and I think they appreciate I had good reasons.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.