LESLIE MANN

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

Growing up, I wasn't as comfortable expressing myself as I am now, and I think that's why I chose acting: because it's acceptable to have your feelings. It's a place that they want you to feel. Whereas in life, growing up, it was 'Be quiet!' and 'Keep it to yourself.'

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.

I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

I like being married to someone who does what I do, and we can talk for hours about all of this stuff that I struggle with and all this stuff that he struggles with because we're struggling with the same things. If I was married to a banker, I don't know what we'd talk about.

I honestly don't know where the high voice thing came from in the first place. Why do people have high voices? Emotional problems? What is that? It could easily be that. And now I'm getting more normal, and my voice is getting deeper.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my voice, so it's kind of nice that now I'm making a lot of money with it.

I feel like I could be good at directing or producing, but I don't know.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I've known my two best girlfriends since junior high school.

My favourite movie is 'Terms of Endearment.'