“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.”

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

If your friends won’t tell you the truth, who will?

I don’t think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.

On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.

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.

Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.

Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

I can’t wait to have kids; I just can’t wait to hold a baby in my arms.

I don’t think I realized that the cost of fame is that it’s open season on every moment of your life.

My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you’re younger. But I haven’t abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It’s just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can’t convincingly portray at this age.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

I wouldn’t have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I’m so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It’s just stupendous.

You can be true to the character all you want but you’ve got to go home with yourself.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody’s heart, because who doesn’t like to laugh?

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.

I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

I am sure it will grow back.’ The doctor said, ‘You’re too young to know.’ …But in a year’s time that fluid came back, and that eye is just as good as the other one today.

These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann’s to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

The free man is not he who defies the rules … but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day’s experience.

I really learned it all from mothers.