I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

I have always loathed working out.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

It's kind of fun to be sexy.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.