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I've always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood.
Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.
Find what makes you feel comfortable. The confidence you wear your clothes in is what's really going to shine.
I used to have a BlackBerry. E-mail and text messaging and all those things that make life so much easier now.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.
It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.
I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.
It's always wonderful when you can have safe places where you can dance with the not-so-nice you in a fun way.
It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.
I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.
I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.
The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.
As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.
No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.
I'm like Jay Gatsby. I like to throw the party and then stand back, looking gorgeous. Stand back and watch it.
There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.
You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.
Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space.
The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.
My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.
I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.
I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.
He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.
I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."
I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.
If you have Julia Roberts in a movie youre never really afraid for her because you know shes not going to die.
I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.
A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine.
Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.
Working with Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad has been totally thrilling because he is so clear in his approach.
As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.
For me, it's just eat whatever makes you feel good. Work out whenever you want to. Just take care of yourself.
When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners
You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.
Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.
I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.