I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

I'm so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren't allowed to have their 20s. It's all being documented.

I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.

I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.

I remember travelling up and down the road, and I kept journals during my whole career, and I was always making notes about things I wanted to say, words I wanted to create, actions I wanted to do, things I wanted to do to make the character more imaginative and fantastical.

It is nice to have a lot of people watch your work but I really have thought of it as not the goal of my career but a bonus in my career.

I think it's possible to be a great mother and have a successful career. I like that more women are doing this.