Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!

If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.

We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace.

Anti-Semitism is a rotten thing. It's an ignorant, stupid, horrible thing. As is anti-Muslim feeling. They have to be together.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

My first role was in a Nativity play. My mom was playing Mary, and I was crying backstage, so she brought me out as Baby Jesus.

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

Flow into your dancing, circulate the steps into your body, as you would run your fingers through the hair of the one you Love.

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there [with].

I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

I love all different kinds of music, but my favorites on my iPod are Bruno Mars, Rascal Flats, Taylor Swift just to name a few.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

My advice to Sarah Palin is, you've got a hot bod; don't keep it to yourself. Why wear a pantsuit when you can wear a swimsuit?

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

I think, in the media, Christians are the butt of every joke, or they are portrayed running around condemning everyone to Hell.

Toronto is such a progressive city. When you've travelled to other places in the world, you realize how unprogressive they are.

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