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I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.
I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.
Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.
I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
It hurts so good and I feel euphoric after . . . yoga people on a whole are super cool and everyone is there to work on their own thing.
I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.
If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged -- but not until I'm down to a size eight.
I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private.
Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.
I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
I might get some more animals or something, but I'm done with the kids. I got a boy, I got a girl, and I got an older boy. I'm straight.
But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.
It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.
You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in love with love.
I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'
I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.
I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.
I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.
New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream.
If you walk out of the house and think you feel great, or if someone tells you that you look amazing, believe it and just say thank you.
My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.
I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.
I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.
One product that you can never go wrong with is sunglasses because they are easy to misplace. I always get a couple of pairs every year.
I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.
I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.
There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.
I eat an avocado every day. It's amazing for your skin. It's one of the super-foods, and I'm just so into eating properly and healthily.
That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.
I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.
When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.
Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.
People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.
The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or something.
At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.
I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.
I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy.
There are two movies where I keep my clothes on. My parents will be very proud. They're challenging characters, which I'm excited about.
I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.