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I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.
When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.
If you don't believe I'm a professional, do not sign me. And if you've signed me on a certain belief, don't question my integrity.
So if they happen to be over the age of 35 and they're male? They're probably going to recognize me from 'The Karate Kid Part II.'
Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.
In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.
I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.
I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.
You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.
[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.
When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the Lion King soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.
The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.
I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.
Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for what they deserve. I'm proud to be a part of a wave of strong women on TV!
I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
I'm only on Instagram, and it's under a ridiculous name, and I'm friends with, like, five people, all of whom I've had dinner with.
I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.
I didn't know what to do with the fan mail. I had a little mini, and I used to put it at the back of my mini, and it grew and grew.
I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.
Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.
What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.
Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.
After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.
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,.
I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.
It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
I went to the library and found lots of material about this time, about the Freedom March and what was going on down there in 1964.
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.
I do most of the cooking at home, and both my mom and my mother-in-law are excellent chefs. However, I wouldn't call myself a chef.
By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.
If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.
[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.
Sometimes I don't like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I'm healthy now.
I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.
I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.
I honestly eat chocolate all day long. I do realize how blessed I am to be able to eat what I want and not have to live in the gym.
No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.'
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.