“Actually, I’m happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That’s a wonderful cooking store.”

There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I’ve never seen that before.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA.

You can’t really go wrong as long as you’re true to yourself.

I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don’t want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, ‘Oh, you looked amazing – why didn’t you keep that?’ Not, ‘Oh my God – I can’t believe you wore that.’

I have a tight-knit Southern family.

Soy lattes get me through my day!

It’s definitely attractive when a man can dress well.

I think that when you smell good, you feel good. You know how when you’re in a room and someone else smells good, you’re like, ‘Where is that?’

If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.

Honestly, I’m so sick of myself.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

I have to learn to knit.

My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I’m looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it’s not that he’s super that is his focus; it’s that he’s a man. He’s very human. That’s his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

It’s hardly ever done, compared to how often it’s done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company – I said, “You never do Shakespeare.” And he said, “Yes, we’re not very good at it.” And I thought, “What a terrible thing to say.”.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.

I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,

That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.

I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.