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Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
People have this conception of plus size models as girls who aren't fit or don't work out or don't really take care of their bodies.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.
You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.
The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.
You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes.
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.
I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.
Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.
I'm a boots girl. The most I've ever spent on clothing is a pair of Ralph Lauren boots that go over the knee but can also fold down.
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.
When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!
You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.
When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.
Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.
I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.
The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.
I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.
Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.
I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.
I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.
On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.
I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.
I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.
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.
I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.
I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.
I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.
Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.