My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

It would have been a lot easier on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston now if they had not talked to the press about each other and everything to begin with,

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.