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I am a person who is not mated.
I've only been to one concert in my life.
My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.
I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.
No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.
To truly feel seen by another person makes you feel so peaceful.
Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.
Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.
I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.
My sister's a big karaoke person, and she's never been able to get me to do it.
There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.
I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.
I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.
I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.
If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
Being in a hotel room and watching 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' is one of my great joys.
My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life.
There's some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.
When I have brown hair I feel the most like myself, but I don't feel glamorous. It's a disgusting thing to admit.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.
The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.
My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is 'other' makes it compelling.
I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.
I did an episode of 'Law & Order,' where I literally didn't move my neck because I thought you couldn't move your head on camera.
I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.
My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.
The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.
The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.
The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'
If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.
I started auditioning, and the first job I ever got was understudying Amy Ryan in 'The Sisters Rosensweig' on Broadway, directed by Daniel Sullivan. I was 18 years old.
I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.
I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.
I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called 'Down with Love', in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO about the Johnson administration in the '60s.
I moved to L.A. and did a two-part episode of this British export show called 'Cracker.' I kissed Josh Hartnett. I think Josh Hartnett's first onscreen kiss was me, unfortunately.
If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.
To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.
I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.
All of my friends went to college, and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller.
I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.
I like to go into an audition room, particularly when they think I'm not right for a part, and really fight for it. There's something so exciting and challenging about proving to yourself that you can pull it off.
I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child - by the time I was 12 years old, I had lived in about 10 different places. But I like going to the theater at a certain time.
Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.
Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go, 'Well, I'm gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling.' You don't get to do that on television.
Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are - not only at their job but also as a person - they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.
I like the ritual of putting on my makeup, putting on my costume, doing my warm-ups. I eat the same dinner every night before I go on stage. I like having something that I can count on, something that feels stabilizing for me.