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It's been a pretty amazing experience, getting to go from 'Bosch' to 'The Vampire Diaries' back-to-back, with a little 'Castle' in between.
Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'
I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.
I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship.
Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.
Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.
It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.
I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.
I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug.
I'm an absolute clean freak. I'll go to my friends' houses and even start cleaning. I'm such a granny at heart. My couch is my best friend.
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.
I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.
I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.
I prefer thrillers but when its thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town! That would be on my last-supper list.
You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.
'The Avengers' happened because I'm friends with Joss Whedon, and he sort of brought me into the mix when they were looking for Maria Hill.
I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.
You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason. With 'Awake,' I got to do a drama, and with 'Anger Management,' that's my comedy.
Lunch is formal - that's when my husband and I have our dates. And dinner is formal: we sit down every day with the kids at seven o' clock.
I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.
I truly believe you can't buy your way into genuine love. You can surely buy companionship, but I don't think [love] has a price tag on it.
I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.
I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
As a kid I got to like hang out with Stephen King. That was like the highlight of my life. Cause I think he's the raddest human being ever.
I can't walk five steps without someone on a walkie talkie going, 'She's wandering over there.' I'm pretty stuck, but hey, it's been great.
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.
I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true.
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.