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.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

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.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

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.

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 still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

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.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

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?

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

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

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

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