Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
