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You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.
I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.
You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.
I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.
Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.
My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.
Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.
I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection.
Monogamy is a tricky thing. I don't think it's for everyone, but I've chosen that life, and there's no question in my relationship.
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.
I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.
Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are 'fresh meat,' and people will meet you and give you a chance.
People don't want to see me having sex... I'm the queen of the 'kiss, foreplay, dissolve.' And then the 'Whoo! Good morning, tiger.
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.
Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.
Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it
My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.
I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.
My, I like Judy Holliday! She looks like a Monet model. And she's so - so defenseless. I like defenseless people. They're the best.
If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.
I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know.
You can probably ask my husband, and he might tell you differently, but I feel very much like I'm kind of cautious in my real life.
I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.
I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.
Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.
Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.
My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.
I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.
I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.
I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.
The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].
At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever's in the fridge. It's sort of a game.
South Pacific - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during South Pacific, I went from being a girl to being a woman.
If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.
It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.
But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.
Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.