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I also have a routine with breathing and visualization techniques that I go through when I feel overwhelmed or nervous.
I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.
I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.
I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.
As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.
You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.
Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.
One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.
As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.
I certainly had times when I thought this wasn't going to work out, but just being a working actor felt like a victory.
I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.
When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.
We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.
Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.
The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now.
Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.
I don't like asking for an autograph, but I would like to take a picture with Jessica Simpson because I love her style!
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.
There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.
I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.
When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.
I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.
For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.
I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.
I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!
People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.
'Field of Dreams' made me realize that I wanted to live my dreams, to risk things for what I felt and what I dreamt of.
Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.
You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.
I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.
It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
I'm a tough girl, and I can go without a shower bot a week and be fine with that. But I will not sleep on dirty sheets.