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When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.
I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.
We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action.
Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.
Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.
I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.
Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!
I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.
When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
I have to say, I'm sort of always obsessed with Norah Jones. I just love her voice, but I don't really have an album - I have a playlist.
Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'
I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.
I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.
I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.
Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
I think a little tidbit I can give you is that I grew up with basically everything handed to me, except for my career. I worked for that.
I think men are still attracted to what they've always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.
I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.
It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.
Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.
Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!
I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.
Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.
I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the same sentence.
My favorite shirt to sleep in is the one my birth mom was wearing when she died in my arms. Morbid for some perhaps but comforting to me.
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.
When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.
I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.
I am a follower of Jesus. My husband really brought me to the Lord when I was 18 and I am so lucky to have a platform through the studio.
High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.
I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'
I love podcasts! I wish I had my own, although I think there are already too many podcasts, so I don't know how I would create a new one.
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.
I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.
The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.
It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.