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I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!
All of the coding and hacking stuff that we do and I talk about, I always have them explain what it means so I know what I'm saying.
I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.
While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.
I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals.
After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.
We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'
I think I'm a mousepad. I don't want to be a mousepad, but I'm a mousepad. I'm also a screen saver, thank you very much. It's weird.
I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy
I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love 'The Americans,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'True Detective,' 'House of Cards' and 'Peaky Blinders.'
I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.
Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.
I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.
There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.
What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.
One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.
They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?
They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?
The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.
I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with a British man for me.
If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I'm going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that.
It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.
I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure.
I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.
As a teenager, I was very awkward in my skin. I was never in the cool gang. I had braces and was quite the geek as well as a tomboy.
My biological father and I had a really good relationship at one point. He was one of my close friends and gave me wonderful advice.
I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.
Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.
What love it to me...is his happiness. I'm not like you where I fall in love so I can be happy. All I need is for him to be smiling.
Some birdies were about a family with hardships. Other days, birdie was a selfless teacher. And birdie from before is my first love.
Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.
It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.
Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.
Big brows weren’t the look in L.A., where I grew up. But my mom instilled in me that it’s the quirky things that make you beautiful.
I'm not really afraid of somebody who's very politically vocal. My mother is very strong, and I really believe in freedom of speech.
All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.
I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?
I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?
I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.