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I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.
Wouldn't it be exciting if all women just went on strike? Just a woman's strike. Everything would fall apart pretty quickly then, wouldn't it?
If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.
That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.
I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.
My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.
When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.
I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?
Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'
I started driving really late. It was super freeing and fun to be able to just drive by myself. But the thing is, I don't really like driving.
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.
My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing.
If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.
When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.
One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.
Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.
When I was growing up, I had a nanny who would always play 'The Sound of Music' and 'Bye Bye Birdie,' so I was always listening to that stuff.
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.
You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.
As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.
But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.
That's the amazing thing about our jobs; it's constantly changing, and it's extremely dynamic, and you, therefore, have to be dynamic as well.
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.
I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.
The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.
I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.
I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.
I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.
For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.
I'm not a waif-y girl and never will be. I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.
Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.
I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.
My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
I feel ashamed of how many houses I've actually crept inside of when they were up for sale. I'm not a snoop, but I love looking and imagining.
I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important.
What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.
I look at Liv Tyler and think 'It's not fair', because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.
I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.
My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.