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Believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, you can't accomplish your goals. Know that you can do anything and anything will happen.
I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.
People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.
I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.
People seem comfortable with me. And maybe that's got a lot to do with shows like Graham Norton. You just tell it like it is on those programs.
I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
I like to make pies. That's kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.
Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.
For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.
When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
Be kind to people, do the best that you can do and don’t compromise yourself for anyone else and you’ll end up being the best person, trust me.
I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.
Every time I sign a contract, I donate something to charity and buy a piece of jewelry. Whether the movie gets made or not, it's a celebration.
I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.
I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.
For me, running a set and directing has been the most rewarding thing of my life and a happy surprise, because it was never really on my radar.
It's a hilarious part of my past, all the sitcoms I did in the '80s. And then all the animation - animation is amazing. It's really been great.
I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.
As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.
It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.
Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.
But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
I like to think that I can run, but I remember once running up and down through different terrains while on set in Iceland, and I face planted.
I'm doing a bit of theatre: I'm doing a Mike Bartlett play called 'Contractions.' I'm very, very happy and lucky to be going back to the stage.
Quit thinking about your weight and start thinking about your worth and who you are and what you haven't done yet. What you want to accomplish.
I wouldnt mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.
I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'
I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
You can't be a perfect environmentalist unless you're Ed Begley, Jr., whom I once saw on TV using a bicycle to power his toaster. He's amazing.
I take my kids to the farmer's market - knowing I'm buying local and fresh makes the humiliation of the little choo-choo train ride worthwhile.
I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.
Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.
I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.
NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.
Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.
I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.
My brothers were my idols. I've always looked up to them and was proud to be their baby sister. I felt like they gave me some cool points, too.
It was just this sudden call like it was an emergency. "Quick! You have to go do this... because it's Friends!" I was just, "Oh, my God, okay!"
I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.
Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.
I don't believe in anti-aging creams. I believe the skin should be clean, should be nourished, but most of all you should eat the right things.
All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.
As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.
It's hard to make friends as an adult. You gotta work at it, you know? You have to ask people to lunch, and if you don't know them, it's weird.
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?