Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

• America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
• I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
• The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
• Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
• All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
• My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
• There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
• The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
• I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.