Have faith in your own thoughts.
Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door.
Two eggs do not an omelette make.
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
I think I’m going to have to live vicariously through my daughter’s rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I’ve ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
People say, ‘I love my wrinkles.’ I don’t love my wrinkles – come on!
I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn’t challenge my family life.
I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.
My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.
My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander’s and Bloomingdale’s.
You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.
You don’t necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?
I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn’t look at her. I couldn’t hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
It’s nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he’ll bring a drill or something.
The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn’t happen.