The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

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

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.