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I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.
I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.
The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.
I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.
It doesn't matter what gender you are, or it doesn't matter what other background you come from: everybody deals with insecurity.
I was very hesitant about doing a period film. It was very much out of my comfort zone; I'd never done anything like that before.
I do have a lot of respect for the girls in 'Hollyoaks.' It takes a lot of effort to look like that constantly. I couldn't do it.
The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.
Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourself for you and all that that entails.
I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.
Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.
I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.
I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.
I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.
I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.
I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.
It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone.
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I'm overly hard on myself.
I love finding talent. Just to encourage people is a good thing. Every night, the audience encourages me. I'm just passing it on.
On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.
Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
It's been such a nice journey doing 'When Calls the Heart' from Episode 1 to Episode 12. It's been a really, really nice journey.
Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them because they're busy updating them.
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line.
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.
I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all bruises.
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.
It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.
I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.
Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.
Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.
I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.