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.

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 have to pretend to be something that we're not.

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.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

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 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.

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'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.

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.

We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.

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 rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography.

I still love being creative. I still love the aspects of working together with great, talented people. But it's a weird dichotomy; I'm being blessed with more opportunities, but I'm going to be taking less of them.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

The Hollywood I know has allowed me the opportunity after opportunity to keep doing new things and not send me out to pasture. I don't want to go to pasture. It's cold. I'm allergic to grass. And the cows are mean.

Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'

I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

I don't think we are the only planet that has life.

I'll do anything for free stuff.

I've never been a blind romantic.

Lemons clean everything. It's the greatest disinfectant.

Crushes are wonderful-they make you feel like you're two years old, and you say the stupidest things.

It's nice we work in a place where you're allowed to keep coming back to have new experiences together.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

I got away from comedy because it wasn't being done in the way that I loved and the way that I could do it. It made me sad because I felt like it wasn't appreciated and no one was writing it so, 'I'll abandon it.

I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.

Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.

I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability to figure out people's rhythms. It all starts from the script.

I'm difficult on every single level. I'm aware that I can be annoying.

I go to bed wearing a very baggy one-piece cheetah suit, just because it makes my son laugh. My sexy lingerie has been locked in a drawer for a while.

I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.

Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight.

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.

I'm not a fan of reality shows, but I am a fan of people who use their brains and skills and hard work to outsmart people, not to steal someone's man or get drunk on TV.

There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.