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I do feel I'm kind of a magnet for crazy, and if there isn't enough crazy, I will insert myself in a situation that I feel has comedy potential.
I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.
I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.
I don't think I've been shy in the past. Young and uncomfortable, maybe. But shy? It has become this annoying term that I've been lumbered with.
Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.
When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.
But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.
I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy.
I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'
People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.
I'm all about time management. I have gotten my makeup prep in the morning down to, like, four minutes. There's just not enough time in the day.
I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.
I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.
I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.
For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want to leave my life, which is really precious to me.
My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.
You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.
So yes, the roles are getting more and more like me. But that's because Xena was so entirely unlike me. Most people aren't really aware of that.
The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people.
I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to meet new people, but I guess I sound I'm being sarcastic.
I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.
I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
The older I get, the more vulnerable I get. But the part of me that resists that, that is stubborn and wants to bulldoze things, gets in my way.
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.
When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.
Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.
Even when I'm trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.
Honestly, I think if I had to stop acting I'd be like, 'Well, I guess I have to go live in the mountains now.' I'd probably be a good assistant.
The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.
I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.
I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.
People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working person you'll ever know.
I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four.
In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.