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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Why shouldn't I be confident? I'm well educated, I can deliver a line, and I have more than three expressions. That's good right?
Stay-at-home mothers are building our future. And I feel like if we had more of them, our society would not be in such a decline.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
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.
Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.
If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.
I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.
I want Priyanka Chopra to do my biopic. I think she is very good and lovely. Priyanka would be the ideal actress to play my part.
I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.
It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of Victoria Beckham's look book.
'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.
As an actress who wants to sustain her career, I would like to work and experiment with different types of looks and performances.
I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.
~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~
We all know that a beautiful face is an important aspect of an actor's personality if he or she wants to make it big in Bollywood.
I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety, and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.
Stars really are like anyone else. At the end of the day, Brad Pitt poops - as handsome as he may be - and so does Angelina Jolie.
I've never gone on a date... If I've ever had a man in my life, it's because I know him well, and he really means something to me.
I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.
It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.
I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'
It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.
I wouldn't like to see a female Bond, because we wouldn't want to lose the Bond girls. But we could have a lesbian Bond - why not?
Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.
'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.
I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?
I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.
I'm insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can't wait to have babies.
I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.
Most of my friends wonder why I get these roles that are so masculine and tough. I think it's my Polish temperament that comes up.
I do enjoy fashion - a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone.
If ever there was a proverbial truth, it's the more you give, the more you get. Give and start experiencing a life of fulfillment!
I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.
Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.
I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.
As far as being married and what it means to me... it's nice knowing that I have a partner in life and that someone's got my back.
No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.
Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.
I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
My favorite thing is to hang out at my house, be on my beautiful property, prune bushes, take a long walk, build a fire, and read.
There are not many things that can happen much worse to a family than having a member taken and not knowing what happened to them.
I have a journal, and every character that I play, I write as the character: how I feel about things and how I'm going to play it.
No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - Creature from the Black Lagoon.'