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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory.
I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside.
I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.
It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.
Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're going through.
I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?
I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.
I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.
I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.
It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life -- not getting ready for a red carpet.
I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.
I use Stevia instead of sweetener. I add it to coffee or tea instead of sugar - you can even cook with it. The vanilla flavor is to die for!
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.
When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style.
I'm just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It's just there. It's something I don't have to turn on.
I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.
We must take down the carnies. I think we need to start a campaign to defeat their scamming ways. I never win the boardwalk basketball game.
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.
It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.
When I got 'Trophy Wife', the first fear is, 'This could go away;' the second is, 'It's here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.'
Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.
Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.
What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was.
You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.
I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.
I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.
Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I'm one of those people who has a toothbrush and toothpaste with me at all times. After lunch, I'll brush my teeth in a restaurant bathroom!
My hair is normally really unkempt - I'll just use my sunglasses like a headband or throw on a felt cloche by Behida Dolic in windy weather.
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
It's been an interesting progression, going from soap to a sitcom with 'How I Met Your Mother' and now being a series regular on 'Homeland.'
The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.
I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.
In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?
One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.
I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.
I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.
I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.
I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.
My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.
I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.