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I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.
I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're fine.
For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'
There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.
I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.
I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
I try and feel good, and the only way to do it is to see myself in the mirror and to know that I'm still a single piece.
I believe unexplored territories and taking on new ventures is the natural progression all human beings must experience.
I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.
I would really like to do a straight action movie, that's hardcore, heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.
I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
Jen[nifer Lawrence]'s main goal in life is to get me to laugh while we're filming sad scenes. And it's the HUNGER GAMES.
I came into films with 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna.' My first film was actually 'Hulchul,' but it was released after 'HRHK.'
It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
I love you. Really, I do. Now love yourself more and each other a lot more. And please take care of this precious planet.
You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.
It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles.
There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.
There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.
I think what it is a condition of human - of love. How important that is and integral that is too everybody even a ghost.
In the '60s and '70s people were a little bit more naive and trusting and got in people's cars without thinking about it.
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
The 'Fargo' characters, they're the characters of my people. They're stoic, hardworking, uncomplaining, and I loved them.
I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.
I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.
The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.
Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.
I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.
A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go, that hurts.
Pink champagne -- that's the kind of life we've both been used to. It might be a little difficult to -- do you like beer?
I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.
I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.
That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.
I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.
Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise.
Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'