It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye.

Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'

I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.

Love for me is comfort. I feel most loved and most capable of giving love when I am around people or in places that make me comfortable.

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

I require a lot of stimulation, and there's so much I've learned being in front of the camera, I felt like I had more to give behind it.

I'm that person who takes a makeup wipe at the end of the night to take all my makeup off. I don't sleep in makeup; I think it's so bad.

In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York.

I'm a confident person. I just try to be me. I like to make people laugh, I am a comedienne - so if people find me sexy, that's awesome.

When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.

Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks.'

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

I feel like I was kind of raised to be mechanical, like, 'Hi, I'm Brooke Hogan. I'm Hulk Hogan's daughter. I like cookies and sunshine.'

I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.

My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

I'm an actor who works, and a lot of this is luck for me, that I get to be a part of really great shows that have these cult followings.

I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

I know that in my life my girlfriends are one of the most important relationships I have going through the good times and the bad times.

I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'

There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.

We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.

Superstitions actually played a big role in my life. I wouldn't even go on a casting call if I had a hunch that it was an 'unlucky' day.

I'm a big Urban Outfitters girl, and Forever 21 - I don't think labels make fashion. I think it's your own style, what you put together.

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

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