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Loving a person is loving everything but the person. Being in love with that person is loving everything and that person.
I am representing my community, in a sense, especially given the fact that there are not as many Latino actors out there.
A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.
I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.
I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.
After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'
How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.
A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene.
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
I really like nice forearms - nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well.
The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.
I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.
I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.
The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.
Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.
Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.
It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.
There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.
Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.
In this industry there's this ridiculous connotation with women shows that's it's got to be difficult, and it's not true.
Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.
For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
We're all playing a role. You're playing a role at home, you're playing a role at work, you're playing a role to survive.
On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.
Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.
I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
I always leave a box of unsalted almonds in my house. A handful of those are a good snack that should keep you satisfied.
I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.
I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.
I think I learned a really important lesson, as an actress, that hair and make-up is great, but the lack of it is better.
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.