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A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.
You know, I've made my money. If no one buys my album, cool. It's fine. I've got a house, and I've got dogs that I love. I don't need anything else.
When I was in Nashville, I went to our Macy's and went and tried on all the Hannah Montana stuff. Then I said, 'This is weird, I'm wearing my face.'
I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.
I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.
My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.
Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given an enormous amount of confidence by my parents.
I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a subject; theatre is practical.
I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.
Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.
You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.
We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
I had worked for ten years in theater; I had worked at Second City in Chicago. Then I got to Hollywood, and I was like, naively, 'Where's my pilot?'
If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.
It's challenging and interesting for me to work on projects that are unique and unconventional. I'm so bored with seeing the same recycled material.
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
I am a single mom of three girls, and I'm getting through that. If I can get through that, I can direct a whole season of television that I star in.
People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.
Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.
I have food every day on the table, I have a family, friends, health - all the things without which it wouldn't matter how many roles I get to play.
You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.
I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.
All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.
I'm not shy. I'm quiet. With my close friends. I talk a lot. But if I'm at a big dinner, I'm not gonna walk in and go introduce myself to everybody.
You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald Trump's presidency.
You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.
It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.
I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.
Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young age through my parents.
I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.
I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more.
Honestly, what is ageism really, you know? If you take care of yourself and you feel good then that's really all that matters at the end of the day.
I'm a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their 'Live Your Life' campaign, it already felt like an organic fit.
I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.
The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.
But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.