Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified.

I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.

Felicity Huffman is just flawless; she's above and beyond TV and movies and this Earth.

Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting because you can't be good at anything else. I wish I had gone for my degree - that acting wasn't this be-all-and-end-all.

I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.