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As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.
I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.
Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.
'Vaastu Shastra' has no shadow of 'Bhoot' at all. If 'Bhoot' was a 100 on 100, this is 300 on 100. It's that scary!
If you're in a relationship and someone was cheating, it could be a complete reflection of the relationship itself.
When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.
Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.
I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.
Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.
I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.
Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.
Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.
After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.
I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!
Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.
I want to stretch myself as much as I can whilst I can, just work and try all different things and have a good time.
I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I like to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.
There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.
I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and you recognize their smell.
I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.
I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.
There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.
I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.
Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.
I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?
I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.
I got to work with Jeffrey Wright, which is fantastic. I started out starstruck, but he's so cool, so it was all OK.
There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.
We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb
No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.
The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.