I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.
We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that’s something I’ve experienced, but we’re all just doing the best we can and we’re all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
I’ve always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.
I like that I’ve been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It’s not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they’re deeper. I find that fascinating.
I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
We’re not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the bad girl or the good girl or the bad mother or the good mother, the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children or the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies, all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
Oh, honey, I’m from Oklahoma! This is who I am – middle-class all the way!
In a film, if you can capture what’s going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.
Don’t wait to have a baby! Do it now!
I think what’s interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you’re Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you’re going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that’s fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don’t go to them.
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They’re wonderful. They’re such interesting human beings. I just love it. I’m lucky.
I fall in love with all the people I’m working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that’s actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.
If you’re an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.
I always wonder about people’s history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing and you know there’s some reason why they’re not able to connect. It’s not because they don’t want to. They don’t have the ability.