Actress

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it's going, you'll be okay. Then you become more relaxed.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated.

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

Actually, I'm not crazed about what I eat.

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

Patchouli has always been a part of my fragrance, like a line through my life.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.

I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with.