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It's so important for young girls of color - young girls of any color - to see diverse women as the heroes of their own story.
First stop when I'm on set is my trailer. I like to set my stuff down and lock the door. Be in my own space for a few minutes.
In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.
I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want to do. I'm an open book.
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.
I love 'Beetlejuice' - that's where I met my husband! He designed the sets, so I have nothing but fond memories of that movie.
I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’
I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.
I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.
As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'
It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
Be your best you, and when things get tough always know that you can hand it all over to the universe and it will support you.
When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.
I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.
I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. I'm not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.
I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening
Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.' That's the mantra I keep trying to tell myself, 'I'm doing the best I can.'
I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.
If I help one person out with getting through the struggles that I've had, then I've done my job on this planet and this life.
I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.
I'm not saying I'm perfect, or fixed, but I am learning to love and accept myself. My outlook is more positive and I am happy.
'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.
I did a couple of sketch shows with Mike Palin and Terry Jones... and then I got hired by Granada to do a weekly topical show.
I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.
If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.
Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.
I love physical comedy. Comedy that comes from an emotional place is amazing too and lets me develop in a new way as an actor.
You don't want to get pigeon-holed. So, I always get attracted to parts that are different from the previous ones I've played.
No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.
The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.
In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.
Actors will, in their mind, want to 'steal the scene,' and the problem is that means the scene didn't work in the first place.
Everybody feels like a freak in some way at some time in their life. Or feels on the outside. And everybody is worthy of love.
The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
I'm not a very vengeful person. I like to accept people; I tend to see the good in everybody, so I'm kind of stupid like that.
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.
I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.