I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and its all here.

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.

I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.

When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.

Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

I choose every role, in association with the other ones. I try not to do one thing, over and over and over again.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.

I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

It's tricky territory, height and co-stars. The only thing I can say is that it's never been an issue in my life.

People want to believe that love conquers all and that differences can be worked out, and I do believe that, too.

I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.

So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

I like a good, strong statement. I walk out of movies all the time saying, 'That was terrible!' or 'That sucked!'

I dont watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that Im choosing to watch.

For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.

My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.

I like when a guy has his shirt off and I can see his chest and his abs. When it's all smooth, you can see a lot.

I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.

If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.

Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!

In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.

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