On her meaty joints almost describing her nascent production company: “It was almost called Fat Knuckle Films. Because I have fat knuckles. See? They don’t really look that way until you start putting rings on them, and then it stops right there.�?
On being Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive in 2005: “At first I felt really embarrassed about it. You know, it’s a weird thing to talk about. Like, ‘Hey, guys. Guess what?’ You don’t just go telling everybody that. But after I got over that, I just started to embrace it. I started thinking, If I ever do have kids, and if they have kids, I can tell them: ‘You know what? Your grandma in 2000-and-whatever was the Sexiest Woman Alive. How about that, kids?’ That’s what I started to think about. I’ll always have that picture to say, ‘That’s what Granny used to look like.’ �?
On wanting to grow as an actress: “I want choices. I want options. I want to lay out all the directions I could go and have the ability to choose. I’m slowly starting to have that now.�?
On costarring with Adam Sandler and Kevin James in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry: “It was a little bit intimidating. I really admire Adam and Kevin, but then, I didn’t try to equal them or one-up them, and the character I created didn’t have to be that. She’s the straight woman, but very fun and very cool and just—attainable. That’s the kind of part that I’d like to play more. I mean, a vampire hunter? Is that really attainable? I’d just like to play something a little more quirky, interesting, outrageous. And uninhibited.�?