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My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.
I like the idea that I come into a room, and you think you're dealing with one thing, but the truth is I'm very layered.
It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.
Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.
People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.
I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'
I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.
I'm a one-uniform kind of person; I like to establish the look of a character and just stick with that - like a cartoon.
I think actions really do define how you feel, as opposed to just saying, "I care about you" or "I want to be with you."
When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.
TV shows and stuff give people in the show business very bad names. I'm not going to name any shows, but a lot of shows.
It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights
I got my first kiss while watching 'Titanic', oddly enough, so I think I was more focused on that than the actual movie.
Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.
It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.
Mostly what you remember and enjoy are the scenes you played with people. And quite often, they're the combative scenes!
In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.
It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.
I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.
They do awful things in the press. One newspaper in England said I was 12 years older than I am, and I was ready to sue.
Film was something I didn't really think about when I was young, because if you looked like me, you weren't a film star.
When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.
Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.
We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.
I love to go hiking. I hike every day for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the hills around LA. I go to the gym every day, too.
I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.
I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.
When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying.
I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.
I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.
I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.
I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!
Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.
The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.
Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.
As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.
Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.
It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.
I'm an actress and I want to act, and I'm a mom and I want to be with my kids, and it's trying to find a way to do both.
I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.
There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.
Catwoman is Batman's one true love. She's tremendously popular with women because she's both a heroine and a villainess.