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When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.
I love cooking but I still always go and sneak a little bit of sides from Boston Market, and it's so good. They're so good.
I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well
Although I haven't met Madhuri Dixit in person, I find her very beautiful on screen. I also find Manisha Koirala beautiful.
Being in the profession of acting, I definitely have to be a people's person and socialise when it's an absolute necessity.
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.
I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.
I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.
Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.
I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.
It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.
Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.
With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.
What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion.
I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me.
I have always wanted to be independent. When I became a producer, people said I would not succeed, but I proved them wrong.
When there is a ring on my finger, which is actually given to me, then I'll tell the world. Till then, no one can claim me.
Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?
I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.
I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.
If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.
People are like, 'Do you watch movies?' I'm like, 'I don't care.' I've ceased caring. I can't watch that construct anymore.
The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
When I was growing up in the Isle of Man with ambitions of being a performer, I really wanted to go to see a Broadway show.
I'm a vegetarian and have been since I was about four because I struggled to separate the idea of the animal from the food.
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is 'other' makes it compelling.
I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.
So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.
When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.
People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.
I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.
Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.
When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong.
I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.
Every time I go to a new place, more likely than not, I end up seeing an opera there. It's ended up being a part of travel.