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I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!
It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.
I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.
The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.
In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.
If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
I saw pure love when my son looked at me, and I knew that I had to make a good life for the two of us.
All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
I'm not waiting for Mr Right. I'd be open to dating, but I'm happy not. I'm not on Tinder or anything.
I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.
So many people are focused on reaching the top of an imaginary ladder that they don't enjoy the climb.
It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now
As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.
I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.
What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.
I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.
I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore.
I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.
Nobody is working for Marvel who isn't a super-fan. And it's run by the biggest super-fan of them all.
A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.'
I was like, oh, I want to sign up for "Catwoman," and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it.
I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.
My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally.
All it takes is for one person to say you’re ugly, and you’re like, I guess I’m ugly. And that was it.
When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.
Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.
I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.
I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.
I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
Men, we don't need you in shining armor. We just need you a little bit brave, just a little bit brave.
Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.
Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.