I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.

I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

I definitely am drawn to deeper reds and wine colors for lips and even cheeks during the holiday.

I'm happiest when I'm with my daughter and I don't have any distractions with my phone going off.

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

I'm really a cook. I used to be the opposite - I used to go out a lot - but now I primarily cook.

I want to do things that will change someone's life, not something they'll forget about tomorrow.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.

I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.

I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.

I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.

I travel a lot with work... to and from Cornwall and Bristol, so I find myself on lots of trains.

I'm aware of being pigeonholed in those period drama roles. But, I do love them at the same time.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.

In an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man', and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

Oh, I think Rupert's gorgeous. He is, he's totally gorgeous! Very handsome, very handsome indeed.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

Plenty of times, I haven't been able to wear certain clothes because they didn't come in my size.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

We never want to see anyone go in front of the camera or behind the mic without union protection.

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

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