Quotes
- “People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it’s about being accountable for your actions. I don’t know. I’m just not that girl, I don’t go to clubs. I’m a pretty normal girl.”
- “I called…my managers and said, ‘Look, I’m not going in for this thing. I’m too sick, I feel like crap, and I don’t have a bra on.'” (before auditioning for Popular)
- “When I told my mom… she started laughing. She’s like, ‘Oh yeah, that’ll be good. You don’t have any maternal instinct.’ I was like, ‘Shut up, I have a dog!'” (on playing a mother in See Spot Run)
- “Robert and I just have a natural sort of chemistry with each other that’s really lovely. I love him… He is one of the finest actors we have out there. And he is nice… and he’s funny, and he’s a goofball.” (talking about Robertw Downey Jr.)
- “I never think, Oh, I’m so beautiful. To me, feeling happy is more important.”
- “I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt – you know, a butt that’ll bring tears to your eyes?”
- “I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.”
- “I hate being a blonde.”
- “I eat really fast. I’m done in 10 minutes. Then I sit there and watch you eat.”
- “I’m very loyal, so don’t push my friends and family. My mother, my family, they’re all very dear to me.”
- “I was a late bloomer… I thought the only reason you had sex was to have kids, so my parents had sex four times and that was it. There was no need to do it anymore.”
- “I didn’t let fear kind of come into the equation because it’s very easy to surrender to the fear of, like jumping at 13,000 feet and you’re going, ‘Hi death, knock knock, hi. You going to answer? I hope not.” (on skydiving)
- “My mom is just beyond words fantastic. I mean, she’s such a goddess.”
- “I never dreamt of being a model. “
- “When I meet a woman in a script, I want to give her a voice, and I want to fill her shoes, and I want to go on her journey.”
- “I went to one of these race track garages and I was wearing my hotpants. I walked past all these sweaty guys fixing the cars and I said to the director: ‘I think I’m turned on right now. I didn’t think I would find this so erotic!” (about visiting the set of Talladega Nights)
- “So I walked into this comic-book store and said, ‘Um, hi. I’d like to find some Iron Man comics.’ I’d never even been to a comic-book store before. And all these guys were in there, just standing around staring. I think I was the first person with a vagina to ever walk into that place.”
- “I don’t look anything like Carley Bobby. She’s all about the hair and the tits and the nails. That’s not me. I mean, it’s my stomach and my legs you see, but those aren’t my real breasts or my hair.”
- “I’m very simple. I’m more of a sit-at-the-bar instead of a grab-a-table kind of girl.”
- “Guys don’t think women like to talk about sex as much as they really do.”
- “I’m not a Steel Magnolias kind of girl. I’m kind of like a guy. My favorite movie is Caddyshack.”
- “It’s fun to be a bitch, or at least to play one in a movie.”