Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous ... shoulders.

Being in the limelight with Glee, I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?'

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

I'm just your everyday woman who is trying to feel good and be healthy for her daughter, her fiancé, and herself.

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

I adore Clinique's All About Eyes cream. It depuffs the eyes and makes me look like I actually slept eight hours!

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

I make a sincere effort to do some form of exercise every day, except for Sunday. That's church and hang out day.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me.

Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

'Skins' was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

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