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You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'
Love is what really fuels you, and that goes for relationships with a spouse or with family. Love is a beautiful thing.
I have a really big heart for young women - having been one - when there aren't a lot of good examples for young women.
Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.
It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.
We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.
If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.
I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.
I've been in the fortunate position of playing these strong, snarky female characters since Dana Gordon on 'Entourage.'
If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.
I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.
It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.
I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power
I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.
Oh it's fantastic because I get to whip people like David into shape and tell them to go get me coffee. Kidding - okay.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.
There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!
You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.
The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.
I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
I went to a tiny little high school... I'd make my foray into Calgary if I wanted to see a movie or do something crazy.
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.
When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
The reason why America was built is so that we would have the ability to choose who we pray to, whether we do or don't.
I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!
Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.
I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese.
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.
I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.
No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book
I think that any moms that leave, even for the day at work, and come home every night will tell you that it's not easy.
I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.
I am a Christian, but I also don't really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.
Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.
I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.
When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.
It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.
It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.