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I would do a musical, but I can't sing.
Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.
I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!
When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.
Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.
If you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love.
I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.
I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.
I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.
If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.
I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.
I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting
I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.
Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.
I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.
I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.
If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy.
There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.
In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.
My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.
I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.
I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good.
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.
I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious.
If you take "Cheers" and "Seinfeld" and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.
Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.
Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.
I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!
I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.
I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. I definitely believe in a lot of chemistry and lust at first sight. I think that love is something that takes work.
I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.
I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.
I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.
If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.
I think network television is really hard because it has to sail right away. HBO's so much more nurturing, patient. They think it takes a while for a show to kind of congeal and figure out what its strong spots are.
Although arguably, it's my job to dig deep whether I'm improvising or not. It's just their style. That's the way they feel like they get what they want. I mean, they're really good storytellers, so I love being in their hands.
He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.
~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~
They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband [Games Of Thrones creator David Benioff], which is that the difference between being a writer and not being a writer is finishing.
I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play and it came out really quickly. Eventually I got it, and I wrote a letter to Sarah Jessica Parker and she wanted to do it. So that's how it happened.
I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff.