I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.

There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

I'm a girl who loves shoes. There is nothing like the feeling of trying on shoes at the store and they fit perfectly.

There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

When it mattered the most, my mother was there for me. It was the moment that erased all those days she wasn't there.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?

I'm learning how to deal with life in a different light than I have before and in a different way than I have before.

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.

Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.

Every Valentine's Day growing up, my dad would give me a strawberry cream-filled chocolate heart from Russell Stover.

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

People will tell you that you cant do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it's the 'easiest' part of the pregnancy.

In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

I love people who are inches away from completely falling apart. I think that's a fun, electric character to take on.

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It's something I've always been good at.

Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.

Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn’t make me a bad person, going to church doesn’t make you a good one.

I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

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