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We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.
I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.
I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.
I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.
I don't really watch a lot of television, and I would watch mindless, mindless television.
It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.
The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.
I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.
It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.
If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!
What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.
Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.
There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.
I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.
So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.
When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.
I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.
I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.
I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.
[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.
You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.
Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.
I'm a tough girl, and I can go without a shower bot a week and be fine with that. But I will not sleep on dirty sheets.
I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."
I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.
I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.
You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.
You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’