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I'll always remember Vinod Khanna as a thorough gentleman, cultured, polite, who knew how to conduct himself with the ladies.
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
I personally have a silver idol of Lord Ganesh that I reuse every year. Don't measure your devotion with the size of the idol.
When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.
I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.
I never leave my computer open. That becomes a big OCD thing. If I see people leaving their laptops open, I always close them.
Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.
If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!'
Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.
I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.
Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.
It took, like, 30 years for Carrie to be really happy with me. I don't know what the problem ever was. I've had to work at it.
You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other.
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.
I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.
I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.
I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.
Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.
Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out.
Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.
So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.
That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.
One of my favorite things to do with my dog and my sister's dog and my mom and my sister is to go for these really long walks.
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.
I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.
Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.
I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling.
Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of the earth!
I love 'Les Mis' so much, like, since I was younger; I saw it when I was like, you know, 10, and I've seen it almost 18 times.
I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.