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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'
I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.
The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.
I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
I've been slightly hypoglycemic since I was a kid, so I have to make sure I eat in the morning and get my sugar.
I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.
I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you.
I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.
When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.
I've got Christian Louboutin' s 6 1/4-inch Equestria boots. I wear them so much, I turned the red bottoms brown!
I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.
All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.
If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.
I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.
What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.
I guess Pumas are in their 30s. Cougars in their 40s... Jaguars are 50s, and Sabretooths go into the 60s, right?
I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.
One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.
When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
I want to help with bullying because there are girls who can't just up and homeschool and focus on their career.
Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life youve led.
In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.
I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice.
I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger.
I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works.
There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
I have very sensitive skin, and so, whenever I can, I want to give it a rest. I'm, like, the moisturizing queen.
I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.
I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever the same.
I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.
I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.
There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
I'm still working on my speech, but I do a lot of voice-acting work. My agent is the best. I make a good living.