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If I'm in Italy, I'll have an espresso, but I try not to get my energy from things like that.
Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.
I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.
I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.
If I were Elizabeth Sloane, I wouldn't be wearing makeup. I'd just be focused on getting the job done.
I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.
If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.
We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.
Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.
If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.
For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.
We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing.
Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.
I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.
We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.
We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.
I feel like the bigger risks that I take, the more I learn. I know that I learn more from my failures than successes.
I'm going to do anything I can to be there and support any organization that empowers and creates opportunities for women.
You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.
Some people think I've had a nose job. I've never had anything like that done, but I have no judgement of anyone that does.
I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.
I talked to congressmen who really hate having to go to the many fundraisers, but they see it as a necessary part of their job.
Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.
No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.
I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.
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.
I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life.
I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.
If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.
I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.
I don't know if there will ever be a day that I'm not wearing heels. I'm a very big personality, and I don't like to look up at other people.
I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.
Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.
When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family.
Everything that we criticize young actresses for, they're supposed to do because that's when we're supposed to make mistakes. And find out who we are.
I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?
My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien', wiping the floor with the men on the ship.
My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.
I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'
When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don't want to say no to that... I just want to contribute.
I cut school to read Shakespeare and to learn about that because, for the first time, I felt like I really discovered a passion - the passion of my life.
It's easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera's not rolling, I'll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.
Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.
I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.
I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.
I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.
I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.