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People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful.
I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.
You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.
I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
I am a kind of competitive person. I am competitive with myself. I won't let anything go until I am satisfied with how it is.
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.
One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
I don't see Jian [Ghomeshi] as an enemy. What [Marie Henein] was saying about how I hate him - I'm like, that's not accurate.
Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.
When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to offer.
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.
I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.
I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.
I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield
This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?
I was kind of embarrassed by some of the films I had done. I was like, "Oh, they're going to think I don't have street cred."
See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"
Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.
I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.
I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.
Wayward Pines, I tell you, is a strange place, and the entry is always the hardest part. I was just going along for the ride.
As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.
I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.
I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.
I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.
Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.
Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.
People who are good at stand-up, they sort of seem to have to do it. Something within them makes them have to go on the road.
I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.
'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.
I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.
I'm at my best when I'm working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.
Ever since I became a parent, time moves far too quickly. My vision always feels like I'm wearing giant kaleidoscope-goggles.
An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.