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I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'
It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.
I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.
Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.
I tend to leave the house without makeup all the time. I'm kind of lazy that way.
Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.
Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.
I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media.
People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.
I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.
If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.
I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.
You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.
I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.
I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.
Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.
I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.
Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity.
The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.
Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.
My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.
I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.
Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.
Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.
I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.
I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.
A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.
There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.
I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.
I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.
I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.
The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.
I kind of understand now why people freak out when they see celebrities that they love, because that's how I feel about every single Muppet.
My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.
If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.
Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.
I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.
You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.
Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.