I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

Everyone does things for love.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.

There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.

Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

Every movie is a love story.

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.'

Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

False expectations take away joy.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.