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I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.
I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.
There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.
I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.
I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.
For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it.
I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have.
Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.
I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.
That's been my forever love affair - Mexican food. But yeah it has to be something savory or cheesy. I'm not tempted by sweets.
You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.
A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.
When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.
I think people are just intrigued with the supernatural. I mean, I know that I am. It's something that I find very interesting.
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
I was a teenager in '95, so I didn't dress like a woman then. I was really small. I remember wishing I wasn't wearing Gap Kids.
It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast
My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'
I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me.
I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.
My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible.
I've directed five films and I've proven that people have made money with my films - many people have made money with my films.
Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.
I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.