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Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that's what I like to do.
Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better.
The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.
When I made my first decision, come hell or high water, that I would try to be a professional actor, I was burnt. Emotionally, I was burnt.
If I want to go out to a restaurant with some friends, I'm more than happy that we go in under the radar, have a little evening on our own.
People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.
I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.
At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.
I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.
I think, at one point, I'd been in the five most expensive movies ever made - not that I had large parts in them. 'Apocalypse Now' was one.
I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.
You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.
I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.
When you see a picture of a woolly mammoth on a cave wall, that's weirdly similar to a person's lasagna that they thought looked delicious.
Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.
I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.
I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.
I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.
Yes, I want children and I can't wait to have that closeness with someone - to bring someone into the world. But, I really don't know when.
If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.
It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.
Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.
I love clothes and do sort of change my wardrobe a lot. But a thousand dollar jacket? I'd rather spend it on an experience, like traveling.
The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.
I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.
What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.
Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.
It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.
I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.
I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation.
I like that 'Broad City' exists, and I love being around at the same time as 'Key & Peele.' I love those guys - I just, I love their faces.
I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.
Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.
They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!
My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.
I'm just figuring out being able to understand that it's cool for me to date, and have guys be interested in me, and be interested in guys.
I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.