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I am very reluctantly healthy.
I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.
I love Cate Blanchett; I think she's brilliant.
I would have played any character in an Alexander Payne movie.
I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great.
When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.
Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.
Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.
I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.
I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.
I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.
I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.
In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.
I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.
I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.
I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.
Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.
For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.
I firmly believe that everyone should have to work in the food service industry at least once in their lives.
I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.
Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.
I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.
It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.
I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.
It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.
My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.
I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.
I definitely felt awkward and I didn't fit in. Other than that, I'm learning that everyone felt that way: even the popular girls.
I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.
I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.
I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
The one thing I haven't done that would be so cool would be, like, an action movie. Like a real action, Jason Bourne movie or something.
I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler. Awesome year, right?
I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything.
At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.
'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.
'Reluctantly Healthy' is so completely different than what I do for a living. It's really what I wanted it to be, which is learning to be healthy.
It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.
I think that it's just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that's completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you.
I've done a lot of pilots, and they're all so expositional. In the beginning, I think that it is important to make sure that the audience is invested in us.
I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.
I had Madonna parties; I dressed like Madonna, and I had all of her records because we had records back then. I knew all of her lyrics; I was obsessed with her movies and the whole thing.
If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.
There are a lot of perks when you're an actor. Free food at work was my second favorite in the beginning, but my first was the weird stuff. Like seeing celebrities in no makeup and finding out what they ate.
I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work.
The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.
I think because bullying has really become such a problem right now, I think it's maybe going to be more impactful right now, just because of where that is in society and how much more we're hearing about it.