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As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
If I ever find myself overwhelmed, it's only because I am overwhelmed by how much more I want to learn. That is what drives me.
I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.
I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'
Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.
I don't know, I don't enjoy the business bit of it at all. Anything that's not the acting. It's all sort of like pulling teeth.
I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.
Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.
My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.
Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.
As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?
I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay.
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.
I used to love Jem and the Holograms. I think if they were doing a concert, I would stand in line to see Jem and the Holograms.
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.
I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.
If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.
I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.
I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.
It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.
As a community, as a group of people as a society, Asian Americans have not always been visible, but we've always been present.
I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.
In a vast and diverse country like India, a political party with secular ideology can ensure stable and progressive government.
I just think I have always had a good attitude about everything and never got ahead of myself. No one wants to work with a jerk.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.
I was always into performing and dancing as a kid and acting was a safe place to have all my feelings, which is good as a child.
I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.
I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.
The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman.
Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!
I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.
I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.
To love is a brave thing. To be loved, braver still. But allowing yourself to love yourself? That takes the most courage of all.
I grew up watching James Bond and Star Wars and I just love that kind of action. I love trying to see if *I* can actually do it.
I'm an old bag for the most part on 'Game Of Thrones', so it's so lovely to be glamorous - as glamorous as you can be at my age!
What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.
The Cullens, they're an interesting group of vampires. They're all really good but kind of bad. I mean, they are still vampires.
I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.
I actually love fish and vegetables. I was raised on vegetables! Anything green - spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts - I crave.
I think I've ignored it so much so that when the paparazzi are following me I really don't see them. You don't see them anymore.
I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.