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Success comes in doing the hard work - not breaking each other down, but building each other up. I don't expect any less from myself.
We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
If you need to be bound to someone, then it's important to be married. If you are independent, then it's important to not be married.
I'm interested in the feeling of getting to zero after a play, like you're never going to do it again. That's a really scary feeling.
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
As long as I am still interested and curious I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.
Plus-size girls can look to the Plus-Size Fashion Weekends and feel like it's special - it's something for them and for their bodies.
I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.
Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.
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.
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.
So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that.
Size zero doesn't make you happy and I'm not sure I have the discipline for Hollywood. I'm too much of a fan of chocolate and crisps.
I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.
I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.
That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.
When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.
I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.
I am allergic to a certain kind of glue. Most eyelash glues are terrible, the glue in acrylic nails. I get a rash up my arm and face.
I always fall for the guy that, like, has to blow me off because he needs to go do something with his dog. I love those kind of guys.
My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.
I've loved football since I was in the marching band of junior high and high school and was the water girl for my high school's team.
I can't hear myself. I can stare at my double chin all I want, but hearing this androgynous voice, you can't even tell what sex I am.
I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.
I'm grateful for everything I have. I'm grateful for it all. I'm grateful for love most of all because I have a lot of it in my life.
We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.
I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.
Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
I guess I'm just not the film femme fatale type. I giggle too much. I have freckles and a turned-up nose, and I walk like an athlete.
I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.
I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would hope.
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.
I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.
Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.
I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.
I was sad the show [Payne] only lasted one season. It was a big undertaking. It'd be fun to revisit, but it'll probably never happen.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.