• "I've never done a keg stand! I don't think I've done a keg stand. You know, if I did, I don't think I'd remember it; let just say that."

• "My dad would slap me upside the head if he thought I was too good to drink out of the scan."

• "I love dive bars. Just on principle, I refuse to go to a place and spend $12 on a drink. I'm sorry, can't do it. It's ridiculous."

• "Remember that show Solid Gold? Quiet Riot came on, and I'm like, dude, what's going on in Solid Gold?!? And their performance scared me for life. They scared me so much."

• "Give me a guy who doesn't like sports and by the time I'm done, he'll be watching them."

• "If a girl begins stalking me, I imagine I'd be really flattered for a couple of weeks, and then I'd be like, enough already! Move on... or buy me some more flowers."

• "I haven't taken a roll in the hay of a barn. Well, in the back of a pickup truck, of course! But not in the hay. Hay isn't nearly as romantic as it sounds."

• "All of this [her acting career] scares the hell out of me. I'm frightened and uneasy and sometimes my heart skips a beat. But, hey, it got me out of Iowa, right?"

• "I moved to Chicago after graduating high school, because it was the nearest big city. There, I was three years into a journalism degree with plans to become an investigative television reporter when, I found out I was going to have to start out in a small market like Iowa. So I left."

• "On my first day on Unfaithful, I was standing with Richard Gere and Diane Lane, and I started thinking of that game from Sesame Street, "Which of these three things does not belong?""

• "She's ambitious and very motivated [Peg Maloney: her character in "It Runs in the Family"]. She leads this crazy lifestyle, but she's a little unsure of herself."

• "Somebody told me I'll be on the Celebrity Skin Web site, and I was like "Oh! That's great!" I love the internet. Now I can look at my tits every day online."

• "I modeled for years, so I'm not really freaked out about showing my body."

• "I'm always surprised to get any role to be quite honest. People always ask, 'Is this your breakthrough role?' I think well God every job I ever get that I've never had is like a breakthrough role for me. That Secret deodorant commercial I did six years ago was a breakout thing for me."

• "There are no small jobs, only small actors. I mean, it's such a cliché thing, but it truly is as an actor."

• "Val [Kilmer] came up to me a couple weeks later, he pulled me over to the side he's like, 'You know what?' I was like, 'What?' He's like, 'You sucked so bad at that read-through. You sucked so bad, I couldn't even believe I signed up to do a movie with ...'" "And I was like, 'Gasp.' You can imagine, like 'Oh my God.' And he goes, 'And now I'm just telling you that because I think you're one of the extraordinary actresses I've worked with.'"

• "I'm having so much fun, but I'm not a trained actor, so... truly every experience is like Acting 101, it's Action 202, Acting 303. I'm seriously learning as I'm going along."

• "I put in a lot of hard work and I want people to realize for every job I've gotten, there are 50 or 60 I haven't. People think 'overnight success' - it took me six years to have this overnight success"

• "My parents have always been incredibly supportive. My dad worked in a factory, and my mother has run a day-care (center) out of our home for 30 years and still does it. There are always kids running about. But it was funny, when I called them I was in Chicago and I said, `Mom and Dad, I've got to move to New York.' They said, 'Well, if there's one thing that we've always taught you, it's to follow your heart.' I know that sounds so cliche, but it truly is how they raised me.''

• [About her nude scene in 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang'] "They'll see me in the buff, Maybe it'll bring a little excitement to the town." [Winthrop, Iowa (population 700)]

• [About her movies 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang' and 'North Country'. Both movies were released the same day] "It's so exciting, I can't tell you. I've been telling my friends that they've got to see a double header. They just have to decide whether they want to laugh first or cry first."