- [on Alias (2001) co-star Carl Lumbly] We looked him up on IMDb, and we just cracked up - his resumé goes on and on. He was even on Cagney & Lacey (1981).
- [on being recognized] I never get recognized! I'll be with my husband [actor Scott Foley from Felicity (1998)] and people will think I'm his manager, and they will start giving me their business cards.
- [on winning a Golden Globe Award] My husband was as flabbergasted as I was. I think he almost flew out of his skin, he was so surprised and excited. He is just the most supportive and proud friend. My family is just beyond out-of-control excited.
- Two of my mom's most oft-repeated mom-isms are: "Happiness is your own responsibility" and "Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes in the morning." Both are true.
- [Playboy magazine, April 2002] There's something so interesting about the combination of vulnerability and being completely in control at the same time. Women should run everything - it's about time.
- I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
- The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
- I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.
- [on the prospects of working with husband Ben Affleck again] I think he's brilliant at what he does, but why rock the boat? It works between us pretty well the way it is. I don't know if I want to go to work with him. I'd be like "Okay already, you got the shot. Let's go home!".
- [on getting her ears pierced in January 2009] My sister Melissa had been thinking about getting her ears pierced for a while, but was a bit nervous about having them done - She had never had them done even though she's thirty-nine, and was worried about it hurting. My other sister, Susannah, has had her ears pierced since she was fourteen, and I'd had mine done a couple of times in the past, but let them grow over again both times. We both told her she had nothing to worry about and it didn't hurt at all, so she said she had trust us and get them done - but only if I went with her and got mine done too. So she watched me get my ears pierced, and then she finally got hers done too.
- You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.
- I do all my own stunts!
- [on politics] My interest is becoming more specific - less about the party, more about if you are a candidate who supports early childhood education. This is connected to my work with 'Save the Children' which is entering the political realm a little bit. We've been raising money, and we're going to use it to try to influence a couple of campaigns. There is no NRA for kids, no AARP for kids.
- [on any potential popularity rivalry with husband Ben Affleck] I am not expecting Men, Women & Children (2014) taking Gone Girl (2014). But it would feel feel great some day to spank him at the box-office.
- [on her role in Happy Endings (2005)] I have to learn how to smoke. I have to say horrible things. I have to do horrible things. It's just bad. It's going to be fun.
- [on her film Peppermint (2018)] While this is obviously a fantasy and this kind if revenge is nobody's place in the world - it's certainly not a template for how anything should happen - but there is something about a woman just taking control and saying "Absolutely not. This is absolutely unacceptable."
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