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Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.
You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.
I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.
I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.
I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.
I tried the Crisco, and I hated it. Hated it! I couldn't roll it out. I'm a butter girl for my pie crusts.
Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.
As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
After going to Australia, it's hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I'm obsessed with it.
One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.
The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.
Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.
My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you're with!
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.
Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.
After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well... nothing.
When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.
I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.
God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?
They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.
No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.
We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.
I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
We have our whole lives to try and get a glimpse of what that could be, in our own life. It's so exciting.
I know more about 'Moana' and 'Coco' these days than I do about anything hip and cool like 'Black Mirror'.
If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.
I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.
If I could find the perfect career of doing television and movies where I could sing, that would be great.
People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.
You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.
There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish
I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.
Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.