Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn’t mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn’t get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
I’m lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place – Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I’m more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Most films these days are men’s stories. Women are for add-on romance. That’s very hard.
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn’t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn’t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
I love and adore being a mother. It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever been given.
I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
I was not particularly bright, I wasn’t very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
I’d like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it’s probably more like a TV reality show.
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
If you’re not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.
Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn’t know where to find a date.
That’s the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it’s this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other’s lives.
I don’t think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.
I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you’re saying someone else’s words and relaying the story of someone else’s life, it’s not you.
I love comedy. I don’t approach it any different. I’m not a comedian. I’m not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don’t get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.