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I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.
I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.
Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.
I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
I don't believe in eating junk and I protect my face all the time from the sun, even in the winter with base and makeup.
It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.
I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.
I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.
When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.
I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.
I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.
I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'
Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
Being active and good health is the most important beauty regime because that will affect you for the rest of your life.
I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.
I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.
You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.
I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else.
In L.A., I'm twice the size - height and everything else - of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.
Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.
I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.
I just thank god that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
There has to be this balance of reality for a woman. I don't want to play women who just serve a purpose for the script.
Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
I think the main thing that I've learned while working on 'Let's Stay Together' is how to balance mommyhood and working.
I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.
'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible.
Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude.
It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
I'm incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to bring Mae to work with me as I take on the guest role of 'Mary McGowan.'
Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.