The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.
I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.
Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.
I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would tell stories.
Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.
I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?"
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.