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1. 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.
2. So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
3. I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
4. 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.
5. And also I think particularly as a female, you’re taught to be defensive your whole life. You’re taught not to be aggressive.
6. 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.
7. I’ve learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
8. 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.
9. Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you’re raising small children, your family means everything.
14. And I haven’t read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I’m sure it’s interesting.
15. I’m an actress and mom, and I probably don’t have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don’t know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don’t actually practise them.
16. My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
17. Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn’t mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn’t get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
18. It’s hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you’re being pushed to do it differently. I’ve had fights over that. That’s why it’s so important that you work with good people.
19. I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don’t have one.
20. I’d like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it’s probably more like a TV reality show.