The heart is stupid.
In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can’t be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.
I’ve always been the bookish type, and I’ve never really hidden that about myself.
The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?
From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.
Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don’t know what I would have done without books.
Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.
I don’t really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn’t want a different life.
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it’s always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be – and if they mean something to you – there’s just no stopping you.
I just needed to leave Hollywood.
I’m so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
When you say you’re 40, you can’t call yourself an ingenue any more.
The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I’m always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.
Originally I considered myself a singer.
The cover I was really excited about was ‘Seventeen’ magazine. To me, it was much bigger than ‘Time.’ ‘Seventeen’ was where I wanted to be.
And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.