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I started taking burlesque a couple of years ago because, actually probably before Spanglish even was a thought because I very much recognised that I live in a place that is a Hispanic community, 48% I think at this point and I felt like I was missing it.
Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.
But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
I have a fast swing and I can outdrive a lot of the men I play with. Of course, I only play with people from retirement communities. I can hit it 200 yards. I've seen 230.
I'm not a huge fan of my work.
I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder after having my daughter.
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.
Every time I do a press junket, I get sick... what do you think that is? It's like, how odd, my sicknesses are so predictable.
It's kind of fun to be sexy.
Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
I've looked at my roster and I'm ready to hold it up against Nicole Kidman. I mean, I got everybody she's got except for Tom and a few others.
Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
Shopping turns me off.
First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
And then I did Pilates, partly because I have found that that's maybe the most genius, therapeutic exercise, whatever, but also I thought perfect for that Beverly Hills/Bel Air white lady.
If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
The inner conflict is what makes the spin so much fun, what makes it more colorful. I actually can't imagine playing someone who wasn't neurotic.
Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
I was out at Sheep's Meadow and that's the coolest thing, to return to New York, the city that has people trampling over it and all this change all the time, and you can take a glance at something like Sheep's Meadow and be like... I can remember being on a rock at age 13 with a Frisbee and a joint.
LA is a Hispanic culture.
I started in 1997 while I was on the television series, The Naked Truth. It seemed as if everybody in TV was holding important meetings on the seventh green: producers, writers, mostly guys. I thought it would be a really good idea to learn the game; we could all play golf and discuss the show.
I use Callaways. I have a driver with a firm flex. Honestly, I think you might as well get the biggest thing at the bottom of the stick and go for the ocean.
Yes, I think motherhood has almost everything to do with it, but when I was pregnant with my daughter, I thought I'll never work again.
I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
I have always loathed working out.
Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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