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I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.
You allow people to represent themselves, and they'll either look smart or foolish on their own; you don't have to do much for them.
I met Gilda Radner, God bless her, when I was in grade 13, which doesn't exist anymore. The high school I went to went from 9 to 13.
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.
I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
I sing at home all the time with my kids and my husband, and I will write music together. It's kind of a very intimate thing for me.
It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.
It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.
You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.
I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too... expected.
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
I'm in a no-win situation. If I have my kids in the show, I'm exploiting them. If I don't, people will think I'm not a hands-on mom.
I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.
I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.
There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.
I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York.
I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.
I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.
It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?
Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short.
My favorite Hepburn moment is in 'Sabrina,' when she steps off a boat in white shorts and a plaid shirt. Chic, classic, and unfussy.
I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.
Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.
If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of reach, it could seem scary.
When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.
I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I was going in my life.
Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended.
I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals
My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.
When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.
There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.
Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.
When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.
I think there was a petition online to get me involved in Doctor Who. Im not a Doctor Who fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.
I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.
I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.