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I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.
My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low.
'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.
If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.
I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.
I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.
We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.
I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'
I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.
I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.
You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.
And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.
Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.
I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.
I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.
Most people ask me questions based on a previous interview. That's not an interview. It's like they're just saying my quotes back to me.
I have my sweetheart Yorkshire terrier, Tabasco, along with two cats, Romeo and Jasmine. Yes, I am both a Shakespeare and Disney addict.
People always say, 'Well, celebrity spokespersons have private consultants'. Well, with Jenny Craig everybody gets a private consultant.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
I've watched Clueless as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.
I try to drink a lot of water and always moisturize. When my skin gets cranky, I use Proactiv to keep it clear. That stuff really works.
I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.
I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference... It has to move people.
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.
That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.
If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy.
I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.
I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
I’d like every man who doesn’t call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn’t believe in equality for women.
There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?
Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.
When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.
I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.
Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.
I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.