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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.
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.
I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.
I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.
I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different.
What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.
I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.
I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.
[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I can't be in volatile relationships.
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.
I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.
There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.
I'm not going to stop going to the supermarket just because the paparazzi follow me. I love to cook and a cook needs her ingredients!
I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by.
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
I've had a very positive experience in LA in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.
When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.
They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.
I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.
I would say that 98 percent of the time you are not going to get the role you are going after. I think that can be very discouraging.
I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.
When I started out in this business, dance was not at the height it is now. It was almost like, you're either a dancer or an actress.
I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.
You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.
I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
The hardest thing about becoming famous is trying not to lose yourself. The thing I like best about it is the recognition of my work.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.
When I found out this was going to be the last 'Star Wars' film that was ever going to be made, I felt pretty privileged to be in it.
Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.
If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.
Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.
The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.
There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.
Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.
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 definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.