I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you’re allowed to excavate whatever it is that you’re struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.
I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.
My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don’t read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly.
It’s the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that’s bigger than what’s on the page.
I’ve never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I’ve done them and they’ve just been not – they weren’t better.
We don’t have to pretend to be something that we’re not.
I’m a huge lover of going to the theater and having that experience of people in the room. Any time you go to an experience like this, you hear it in a different way because sound systems are different.
To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don’t want anyone else to do.
I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They’re terrible. They’re bad. They’re not funny and so they shouldn’t be a romantic comedy because most of the time they’re not romantic. They shouldn’t be called romantic comedy.
It’s such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It’s a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.
I’m like the queen of planning and scheduling and I’m trying very hard to stop it. I just want to finish what I’m doing and go home. I want to have a weekend. I want to have breakfast, a stack of pancakes.
I was rejected in school because I didn’t look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, “Be original!” but I didn’t understand until I changed to be like everyone else.
I admire actresses who are good to women. I don’t like the ones who just don’t like women. You can feel it. They’re degrading themselves.
When you’re an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, “I look horrible. I should quit.”
You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, “Wow, I’m reacting to things differently and I feel differently.”
I feel a huge responsibility to anyone who’s younger than me, in helping them take the road less traveled, or finding no road at all and blazing a new trail.
We don’t trust anyone who does anything nice. That’s just the sad world we live in.
I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.
I’m one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They’re all there under that roof.
There’s no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there’s no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it’s with one person or with 20.