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My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.
If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
When Aretha Franklin came on the radio when I was in college, we would stop the car, throw open the doors, jump out, and dance.
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
I'm really into my running workout. Running really helps me clear my head and makes me feel good, especially when I'm stressed.
Acting's such a good job in that you're stimulating and pushing yourself constantly. I'd never want to do anything comfortable.
A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.
I love every aspect of the performing arts and can't imagine myself doing anything different. I give my heart to every project.
You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.
Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.
My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.
It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
If I'm having a fancy glass of champagne, I'll always mix it with the champagne of beers. Because I deserve all the champagnes.
When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.
I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.
'Daredevil's a great show; I feel like 'Jessica Jones' is a great show, and I feel like they really are tapping into something.
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
Bullies say the things they say because they're unhappy. I also remind myself that what they are saying is not really about me.
I know that when you take care of yourself and are happy and healthy, you are better for those around you and your environment.
I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.
There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.
I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.
I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
I usually don't know how to fight hard for roles. I've certainly sent a passionate letter or two... which always leads nowhere.
I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that.
I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent."
If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots
I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.
I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.
There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.
I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.
The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.