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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.
I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.
Anyone with any real blood in his or her veins cannot help being a fan. Being a true American and being a fan are synonymous.
I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine to me – was a huge honour.
No one looks twice at me when they're around, and 'Cinderella' has made no difference. And I know that isn't going to change.
With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.
My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.
Cancer definitely rekindled my spirit. It made me realise that every human being has the capacity to overcome a huge setback.
You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.
I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.
My most ideal date would be something spontaneous, probably a concert, where there's good music and we can talk and hang out.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
We lose things all the time. We lose ourselves every day. We lose our minds occasionally. But it's just a part of life, loss.
There's just this stage in a guy's life where they need to be free and have fun and just be independent and enjoy their life.
My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.
I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.
Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.
My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.
People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.
I loved Albuquerque! And we were there during monsoon season, which I didn't know was a thing outside of, like, the Far East.
You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.
I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.
I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.
It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.
I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.
Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.
It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.
I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.
I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.
I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.
No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.
Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.
I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.