I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times.
The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.
I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.
I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.
In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.
With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.
I have a two-year-old at home, and my whole life is - besides revolved around keeping this little person alive, just watching them on the stairs and eating food and everything of every minute of every day - you plan what time you're going to bed so that you can be your best self first thing in the morning.
Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.
I don't actually think I'm treated unfairly or anything. If anything, I sometimes can't understand why I don't see myself and the people I know represented more in films. Unless I'm going to go out and write them myself, I don't feel like I can really complain about it.
I grew up in the suburbs.
I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue.
There's nothing scarier than just having a moment where you looked away and lost your child.
I'm always surprised that I get called to work. I always feel the way I felt when I was 24 or 25 trying to get a job. I'm amazed I have my SAG card and my Equity card.
I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.
There's a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor - I'm not on Twitter and Facebook and all these things, but I can't ignore them, because it's not realistic to expect my kids are gonna think they're lame.
I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.
I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.
And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.
I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.
