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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.
I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.
I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.
Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.
As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.
So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.
My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.
I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.
You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.
My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn't go down that avenue.
As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.
You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and you can't parallel park.
I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.
It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control.
There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.
I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.
You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.
I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.
People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!
I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.
My family's a huge fan of 'Lord of the Rings.' My dad probably preaches from 'Lord of the Rings' as much as he does the Bible.
When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.
A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.
Plyometrics. Hate them. Enough already. Jumping around, using your own body weight is so hard to me. How did we do it as kids?
I like to find things that are unconventional and make them look classic, because if I'm forcing something, you can just tell.
It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes.
Live in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and dont forget to acknowledge yourself and others.
I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.
Whether or not you're aware of it or not, you're taking the information you get from watching TV and putting it in your brain.
I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.
Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.
Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money!
I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.
There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.
Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
Personally, I like sex and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him -- which is usually sex.
They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
A big lesson that I'm always having to be reminded of is, you can't control how you feel, but you can control how you respond.