“Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I’ve ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she’s right there.”

“For me, doing Wonderland wasn’t about strategy. The story was compelling, it was written really well, I thought I understood the characters, and I just wanted to be in it. I’ve never gone wrong whenever I’ve done that, and I haven’t done that a lot of times.” – On the movie Wonderland

“I’ve been careful to keep my life separate because it’s important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I’m worth more than that.”

“People talk slower to me, as if I were a ten year old.” – On her character Phoebe Buffay in Friends

“Since I had the baby I can’t tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn’t need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.”

“Before I became an actress, I used to think, ‘When I get famous, there’s so much love for you. And I think that’s what everyone’s after with trying to achieve celebrity.”

“I’m the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.”

“My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person.”

“Shirley MacLaine said, You’re so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn’t hear, I couldn’t see. I thought I was going to pass out.”

“We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.”

“Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.”

“I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they’re high drama. It’s also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.”

“I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn’t matter what you are if you are a good person.”