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You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.
I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.
[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.
I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.
Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.
I think it distinguishes television from every other medium. It's what makes it kind of radical, and risky, and fun.
My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.
The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.
Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.
There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.
I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.
I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.
Don't workout because you think you 'need' to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention.
I like to focus on what I'm doing now, which is giving back. I've done interventions with people I've been close to.
My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.
Use the voice that you were given. Shout what you believe in from the top of your lungs. Never let anyone quiet you.
People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.
I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.
I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.
I think because I was a mother, it helped me feel comfortable that really my primary goal there was to save my kids.
Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.
I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.
I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
Let's be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them!
My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.
I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen
I try to stay away from too many reality shows. I catch the 'Housewives,' but they tend to give me a little anxiety.
There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger.
This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.
It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.