There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't a bad thing.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

You Gujarati people are so cute but why is your food so dangerous dhokla, fafda, handva, thepla it sounds like they are missiles

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that.

I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.

Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.

I think that we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups. It's very scary when we're all - as wonderful as it is - connected.

I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Thank you Prince for all of your inspiration and sharing your increadible talents with the world. You will be incredibly missed.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.

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