Quotes

[on Demián Bichir in Weeds (2005)] I might use a word that sounds pretentious, but his performance was almost holy. It was beyond being just about depth. He made the film into a Greek tragedy. And he is one of the few actors I know who could make that part humane. He is pretty delicious.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

My favorite scene in all of the movies is Gregory Peck in Du silence et des ombres... (1962): You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

My mother is a beauty.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.