I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.

Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Go find your joy. It's what you're going to remember in the end.

On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.

I can't cry on demand. I need to feel what I'm feeling. I can't just say, 'Give me a moment' and then cry.

Now, I love men, but I don't need to always be talking about them.

Actually, they [ Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump] are doing pretty well on their own. They don't need my character to step in.

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.

My mother was ahead of her time as a woman.

The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'

I'm a good actress. That's why you know me as likable.

Yeah, I'm nervous. I'm wearing heels in public for crying out loud.

I love people in elements that they're not used to.

The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return. I look at it as, I happen to have the means, I have the energy and I have the passion to do what I want to do.

I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.

I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy.

There is something sexy about a computer nerd.

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

I don't want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens. I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.

I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief.

I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.

Not everything has to be immediate.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.