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I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.
My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.
I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.
Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.
I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.'
politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.
I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.
If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.
I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.
I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.
Bliss begins with the breath. We breathe in, and accept all that is new. We breathe out, and release all that has passed.
When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it.
My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.
It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.
Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.
I try to be professional; I try to be on time. I don't take anything I have for granted. That's my definition of success.
I find that every day is not about where I'll be tomorrow, but it's about what I'm doing today and staying in the moment.
My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.
I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.
People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.
Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.
Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.
It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.
As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.
Julia Roberts was the first big Hollywood celebrity to make me feel like I could be her friend and aspire to be like her.
I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.
Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.
I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there.
I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.
The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.
I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.
During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.
I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.
My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?
In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.
I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.