Actress

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.