"You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'"

"What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real."

"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet."

"I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love."

"The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me."

"I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby."

"Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them."

"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."