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I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.
We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do
It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.
I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime
I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.
I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!
When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part.
My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.
I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.
It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.
I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.
Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!
I thought that we were getting somewhere, but we're still nowhere at all. I watch your tail lights fading, I try but a tear won't fall.
I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.
As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier and more fun.
How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
I think a dream date for me is some kind of fantastic conversation where you end up learning something really wonderful about a person.
I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in puppets! My voice is raw by the time I finish.
I don't feel like consistency is in my life at all, but I honestly wouldn't have it any other way because it keeps my life interesting.
I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
At parties, everyone always thinks I'm drinking, but actually I rarely drink. I live on energy drinks, basically. I love vitamin water.
Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.
Thanks so much, everybody, for making gay marriage legal, thank you for everything you've done-I'm just going to walk through that door
The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.
I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.
Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
I used to breed poodles. I liked them because they were fluffy and so cute - and honestly, they make a lot of money when you sell them!