"I don't understand what people's fascination is with our relationship. If we're in the same city, we go out... Sometimes when I'm in L.A., I stay at Ben Affleck's house. But it's not what people think. We're not together, I swear on my life."

"I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward Ben Affleck. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man."

"I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married."

"It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that."

"It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same." (About her split up with Brad Pitt)

"People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it."

"[I'm going to] weep quietly in a room. No, I'm going to take some friends and family on a vacation somewhere. I'm not sure where yet, but somewhere...I'm plotting. I feel like I lived like so much--so much stuff packed into my twenties alone--I can't imagine what my thirties is gonna bring. I'm really looking forward to it, though." (On her turning 30)

"I do, in theory, want to get married. I do. But I just feel very unready. It's funny, 'cause I look at all my girlfriends, and most of them are married. I just think I am so not there yet, you know? I really think I need some more time before I'm ready for a serious relationship...The thought I could have been ready for marriage in my twenties seems insane to me right now."

"[Mother Blythe Danner] always says that the first time I ever got on stage was in her stomach--you know, when she was pregnant with me. I spent my youth watching her rehearse and being in theater, being underneath theaters--just always being around it."

"I remember the first audition where I finally thought, Okay, I know how to do this now...I get it, was for a [1991] movie called Shout [starring John Travolta] for Universal. I got a little part. It was my first movie, and I was basically an extra. I had one line. So, I sort of thought, Now I've been in a movie, and that's kind of [my big] break."

"I turned 20 on the [set of 1993's Flesh and Bone], and I just could not believe that Meg Ryan was in the movie. I had seen When Harry Met Sally in high school, and it was like my favorite movie, and I just couldn't believe it, you know? It was just, like, she was so famous, and I never really got totally comfortable being around her, 'cause I worshiped her so much."

"I am very comfortable with [the British accent]. I like British culture, and I like the accent, and I like their way, and I really like working there. And I really do like doing the accent. I have fun doing it, and I always do a little bit of a different British accent every time."

"I wear jeans all the time, and so I have my favorite jeans that I really love...I have Juicy Jeans and paper, denim and cloth jeans and Levi's and just all kinds of jeans. I love jeans."

(Ben Affleck's ideal woman is) "A stripper with a Budweiser in each hand."

"I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags."

"In Los Angeles everyone has perfect teeth. It's crocodile land."

"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive."

"I find 'Sex and the City' irreverent and shocking. It's one step beyond how girls really talk. I would do a cameo on that show in a flash."

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