I Grew Up In Manhattan And, Since

Where I Did Feel A Difference Is Learning To Just Work In A Different Way So That Your Resources Are Not Completely Depleted So That You Don't Have Anything To Give To Your Child When You Go Home, And Fortunately I've Been Working Long Enough That I Know How To Make That Shift So That I Don't Compromise My Work Or Compromise My Relationships; Not Compromising Parenting Is Really The Biggest Difference.

People Can't Really Place Me. They're Not Really Sure Who I Am. Sometimes They Think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes They Think I'm Laura Dern.

I Never Felt Like A Happy-go-lucky Ingenue To Begin With. And Parts Are Written Better When You're Older. When You're Young, You're Written To Be An Ingenue, And You're Written To Be A Quality. You're Actually Not Written To Be A Person, You're Written For Your Youth To Inspire Someone Else, Usually A Man. So I Find It Just Much More Liberating.

I Could Have Gone To The Gym For Three Hours A Day And Bought Into All That, But I Just Wasn't Interested.

I Find That Things Don't Bother Me As Much. If I Had A Bad Day On Set, It Sort Of Just Rolls Of My Back In A Way That It Didn't Before. So That's Where The Biggest Difference Is, Stuff That Used To Get Under My Skin Or That I Would Worry About Or Be Anxious About Just Isn't A Problem. So In Some Ways, Having A Child Has Been Very Liberating. I Found It Very Liberating.