"Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother."

"My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act."

"The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs."

"Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status."

"It is a subtle truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience."

"I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there."

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."