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If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.
If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.
I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.
I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.
I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'
I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.
I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!
I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!
I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.
I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.
I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.
My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.
On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.
Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.
There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.
That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.
I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.
If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.
We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.
By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.
I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.
I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do - I like trying my hand at everything.
I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.
Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.
I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.
I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.
Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.
I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.
I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'
I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.
My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.
I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.
As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.
My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.
I've had boyfriends complain, "Wait, you don't want to see me?" No, I don't. I just want to hang out by myself. So screw off.