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Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.
If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.
I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.
After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.
If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.
I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.
I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.
I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.
Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.
I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.
People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.
Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.
I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.
Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.
What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it.
My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.
Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.
When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?
As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.
The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.
I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.
I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good. I love the smell of Balmex. Love it.
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.
The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?
People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.
People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.
Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.
I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don't shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.
~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~
I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.
The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.
I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.
I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.
I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.
I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.
When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.
I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.