I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

I have done many films across the globe and would love to be a part of Bollywood, but the script must have a strong character for me.

You might need a little more nuance in personal relationships. Climbing the work ladder is different from climbing the social ladder.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

Before 'The OC,' I was on track to do some great films... and one thing happens, and then I got this mega-stardom all from this show.

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

All the home I know is a hotel. Why, I don't even have a dog... I don't know the first thing about cooking or taking care of a house.

I never had confidence - never. The hardest thing to know is your own worth, and it took me years and years to find out what mine is.

The problem that I find in 'MasterChef India' is that it doesn't look like 'MasterChef Australia.' It doesn't have that kind of mood.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

I think part of real intimacy is being able to leave the room mad, and knowing that the other person will be there when you get back.

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

I'm always at my fittest when I'm doing a show - even when you're not on stage, you are running around backstage doing quick changes.

'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.

When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' with my character's name Sansa engraved on it.

I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!

I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.

All the parts I've enjoyed playing the most I didn't know about until they appeared, or it was something I read and fell in love with.

I think eyebrows are the symmetry of the face. If they're not balanced and brushed up in the right way, your face looks kind of messy.

I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.

I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.

I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.

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