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You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.
I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.
I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.
I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.
I don't ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close them.
I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.
I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'
I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.
Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile.
I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.
Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.
'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
There's some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.
I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.
I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.
There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.
Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.
I am Anil Kapoor's daughter, so I am always compared with legends. It is a part and parcel of my life.
If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.
Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.
I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.
I know there's Botox and all these skin-firming treatments, but I'm afraid they'll make me look weird.
I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.
The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself.
I'm a big fan of Amy Sedaris, and one of her decorating mainstays is to put googly eyes on everything.
I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.
I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.
I've worked with a lot of really famous people. It stops being weird really quickly. For me, at least.
I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.
I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.
I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.
I am ambitious, but don't think that I'm in a race where I have to run to prove myself or outdo anyone.
I don't believe in the popular dialogue, 'I will kiss if the script demands it' or something like that.
I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.
The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.
My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.
It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds.
I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune.