A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.
I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.
The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out!
If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.
I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.
I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.
I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.
Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.
For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right! It's gonna be jiggly and weird.
I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.
Good friends and great pets. Key to a good life!!! Who says you have to be paired up with a partner?
I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.
[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?
It's better to be on a soap opera to renew your career and following than to be on any other medium.
Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.
If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.
There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.
It drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight - the sound of them fighting and not getting along.
I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.
It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.
The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.
I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.
Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?
Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.
I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
I've never played an attorney, and I'd like to do so on a show like 'The Practice' or 'Law & Order.'
Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.
If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
I have a husband who literally worships me. And cleans the house. And blow-dries my daughter's hair.
Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
I think sometimes when you want attention you can wear sunglasses and people are like "Who is that?"
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.
I heard I'm going to have scenes with Lady Gaga so I'm hoping it's true. I know of one scene I have.
I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer... the way Courtney Love is a singer.
No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.
My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like “Spy Kids.”
My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.
I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.
I tend to come home and eat a bowl of cereal. I'm not thinking about baking a pie when I'm off work.
I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined.
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while-that's house they learn to be creative.
I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.
When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.