The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.